[Python-ideas] date.datetime() method to convert from date to datetime

[Ben Finney]

Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> writes:

> My preferred alternative to this idea would be to allow datetime
> constructor to take date (or datetime). This would make date/datetime
> behave similar to int/float.

+1. They are conceptually very similar types, so it makes sense for the
constructor to accept each of them.

> If this is done, I would also like the single-argument constructor to
> accept str in ISO format.

−1, please don't overload a type's default constructor to the point of
accepting all sorts of unrelated types.

I think ‘datetime.fromstring’, if implemented, should be a separate
alternative constructor (by whatever spelling).

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Ben Finney