How to subclass datetime?

[Alex Martelli]

<posted & mailed>

Jane Austine wrote:

> Running Python 2.3a2 on win XP.
> 
> I'm interested in the new datetime module and I want to subclass
> date/datetime class to modify the behaviour. However, simply
> inheritting the classes(like "class mydate(date):" ) didn't work.

Please define "didn't work"...:

>>> import datetime
>>> class mydate(datetime.date):
...   pass
...
>>> xx=mydate(2003,4,14)
>>> print xx
2003-04-14
>>>

Seems to be working just fine.  What exactly isn't working for you?


> Should I resort to delegation?

Maybe, but it's hard to say unless you can be more specific!


Alex