Am I asking too much from datetime?

[thehaas at binary.net]

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I'm trying to use the datetime module.  The following seems to work
any day except the first day of the month:

>>> import datetime
>>> today = datetime.date.today()
>>> print today
2004-06-01
>>> yesterday = datetime.date(today.year, today.month, today.day-1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: day is out of range for month

In other languages (specifically Java, but I'm sure these are others),
this would come out as "2004-05-31".

Is this is a bug, or outside of the functionality of datetime?


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Mike Hostetler          
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