March 12, 2007
10:35 p.m.
Jim Jewett wrote:
It would be OK with me to raise an error (ValueError?) on "dt <= d" if "dt in d". Others might feel differently, and prefer to always get the TypeError -- which is probably why dt<t doesn't already do the obvious thing.
Seems to me that given all the conflicting behaviours peole want this to have in different circumstances, refusing to compare dates and datetimes is the right thing to do. All the use cases I've seen here for comparing them are easily accommodated by either extracting a date from the datetime to compare with the other date, or deriving a datetime from the date with whatever default time part you want. EIBTI. -- Greg