From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:24:53 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-34365: Update date object documentation (GH-8814) X-Git-Tag: v3.7.1rc1~88 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e2b40f4ce954ea3d35a73541029b2253abd9d245;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-34365: Update date object documentation (GH-8814) Python 3.x does not fall back to comparing object addresses when comparing two `dt` objects. https://bugs.python.org/issue34365 (cherry picked from commit 9c223794c754408644c16349b85dd27fdba8a926) Co-authored-by: Danish Prakash --- diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 53c181c4014a..22582476cf95 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