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

[Alexandre Zani]

Good point.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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