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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-03-20 23:00:35 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2014-03-20 23:00:35 (GMT)
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remove the ability of datetime.time to be considered false (closes #13936)
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@@ -1378,10 +1378,13 @@ Supported operations:
* efficient pickling
-* in Boolean contexts, a :class:`.time` object is considered to be true if and
- only if, after converting it to minutes and subtracting :meth:`utcoffset` (or
- ``0`` if that's ``None``), the result is non-zero.
+In boolean contexts, a :class:`.time` object is always considered to be true.
+.. versionchanged:: 3.5
+ Before Python 3.5, a :class:`.time` object was considered to be false if it
+ represented midnight in UTC. This behavior was considered obscure and
+ error-prone and has been removed in Python 3.5. See :issue:`13936` for full
+ details.
Instance methods: