On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:42:16 +1100 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> writes:
Unless someone has a real-world use for the values of date.max, datetime.max, interval.max, I find it rather counter-productive to not store them back as infinities.
The values are useful to know exactly how far in the future one can store date values in Python. It is important that this be discoverable programmatically because the maximum values might change in future versions of the ‘datetime’ library.
So what? Again, the values wouldn't change in Python. It would only be the PostgreSQL mapping that would change.
Adding infinities to the datetime module would probably be possible but someone has to figure out the arithmetic rules. Do we need "not a time" when adding infinity to -infinity?
Adding dates (or datetimes) is not a valid operation today, so I don't see why we would need to change behaviour there.
We're talking about both datetimes and timestamps here. Please follow. Regards Antoine.