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

[Donald Stufft]

On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:21 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 06.03.2014 13:08, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> But perhaps I've been told "midnight is false in boolean context". But
>> which midnight? There are three that apply to me:
>> 
>>>>> naivemidnight
>> datetime.time(0, 0)
>>>>> utcmidnight
>> datetime.time(0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
>>>>> localmidnight
>> datetime.time(0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(0, 36000)))
>> 
>> Are they all False? No, no they're not (unless your local timezone is UTC):
>> 
>>>>> bool(utcmidnight)
>> False
>>>>> bool(naivemidnight)
>> False
>>>>> bool(localmidnight)
>> True
> 
> Now this is a what I consider a valid argument for making a change.
> 
> Thanks, Nick.
> 
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Yea Nick put into words what I’ve been attempting to say better than I ever could have :)

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