[Python-ideas] Please reconsider the Boolean evaluation of midnight

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 09:16:06AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:

> With ‘datetime.time’ there is no equivalent: midnight is not special in
> the way “empty” or “zero magnitude” are. Midnight is an arbitrary point
> on a continuum, and is not a “not there” value. It should not be Boolean
> false any more than any other time.

It may only be a convention that an instant before midnight is the end 
of the day and midnight the beginning of the next, but it is a 
convention: midnight is the origin (i.e. zero point) of the day. That 
makes it arguably as falsey as 0, 0.0 and 0j.


-- 
Steven