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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> You could say the same about equally "confusing" results, yet equality never
>> raises TypeError (except between datetime instances):
>>
>>>>> () == []
>> False
>
> And even closer to home,
>
>>>> date(2012,6,1) == datetime(2012,6,1)
> False
>
> I agree, equality comparison should not raise an exception.

Let's make it so.

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