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Re: Set type for datetime intervals

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  Re: Set type for datetime intervals Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-04-04 11:19 -0400

#106446 — Re: Set type for datetime intervals

FromRandom832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Date2016-04-04 11:19 -0400
SubjectRe: Set type for datetime intervals
Message-ID<mailman.22.1459783682.32530.python-list@python.org>
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, at 06:15, Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
> If you define the intersection operation on interval sets only, then you
> need to write something like this:
> 
> if IntervalSet(i1)*IntervalSet(i2):
>     pass
> 
> which is both uglier and an overkill.

I guess what I don't understand in this situation is why aren't i1 and
i2 already IntervalSets? I'm not sure I see why user code would be
working directly with Intervals at all. Any use for it could be replaced
with an IntervalSet constructor to directly make a set of one interval.

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