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| author | Danish Prakash <grafitykoncept@gmail.com> | 2018-09-11 20:59:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-09-11 20:59:23 (GMT) |
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bpo-34365: Update date object documentation (GH-8814)
Python 3.x does not fall back to comparing object addresses when comparing two `dt` objects.
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https://bugs.python.org/issue34365
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 53c181c..2258247 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -526,10 +526,9 @@ Notes: (4) In other words, ``date1 < date2`` if and only if ``date1.toordinal() < - date2.toordinal()``. In order to stop comparison from falling back to the - default scheme of comparing object addresses, date comparison normally raises - :exc:`TypeError` if the other comparand isn't also a :class:`date` object. - However, ``NotImplemented`` is returned instead if the other comparand has a + date2.toordinal()``. Date comparison raises :exc:`TypeError` if + the other comparand isn't also a :class:`date` object. However, + ``NotImplemented`` is returned instead if the other comparand has a :meth:`timetuple` attribute. This hook gives other kinds of date objects a chance at implementing mixed-type comparison. If not, when a :class:`date` object is compared to an object of a different type, :exc:`TypeError` is raised |