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Re: Another surprise from the datetime module

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Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> writes:

> Hmm. I do not like the replace() as suggested.
>
> Firstly, replace is a verb, and I would normally read
> td.replace(microseconds=0) as an instruction to modify td in place.
> Traditionally, such methods in python return None.

I agree with this objection. A method that is named “replace”, yet does
not modify the object, is badly named.

However, the existing ‘replace’ methods ‘datetime.date.replace’,
‘datetime.datetime.replace’, ‘datetime.time.replace’ already work this
way: they create a new value and return it, without modifying the
original object.

    <URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.replace>
    <URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.replace>
    <URL:http://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.time.replace>

So, if ‘datetime.timedelta.replace’ were to be implemented (I'm not
convinced it is needed), it should have that same behaviour.

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Ben Finney

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Re: Another surprise from the datetime module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-31 11:35 +1100
  Re: Another surprise from the datetime module Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-31 03:53 +0000
    Re: Another surprise from the datetime module Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-30 22:58 -0500
    Re: Another surprise from the datetime module Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-31 15:40 +1100
  Re: Another surprise from the datetime module Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-01-31 04:04 +0000

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