On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> How'd you do that? Does python always know to use the derived class's
> operators when working with a base class and a derived class?

I can't find the reference, but yes.

So the broken datetime behavior would only be noticed by a non-datetime derived class.

got it -  that's why my version didn't work.

So this is a good reason to derive from datetime. but I'd make sure to override everything that doesn't make sense.

-Chris


 
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