[Python-Dev] Issue 2736: datetimes and Unix timestamps

[Alexandre Zani]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le 05/06/2012 19:21, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit :
>
>> with timezone.utc added to datetime module
>> already the cost of supplying tzinfo to UTC datetime objects is low.
>
>
> This is nice when your datetime objects are freshly created. It is not so
> nice when some of them already exist e.g. in a database (using an ORM
> layer). Mixing naive and aware datetimes is currently a catastrophe, since
> even basic operations such as equality comparison fail with a TypeError (it
> must be pretty much the only type in the stdlib with such poisonous
> behaviour).

Comparing aware and naive datetime objects doesn't make much sense but
it's an easy mistake to make. I would say the TypeError is a sensible
way to warn you while simply returning False could lead to much
confusion.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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