Subclassing datetime.date does not seem to work

[Christian Heimes]

Rick King schrieb:
> I would like to subclass datetime.date so that I can write:
> 
> d = date2('12312008')
> 
> I tried:
> 
> from datetime import date
> class date2(date):
>     def __init__( self, strng ):
>         mm,dd,yy = int(strng[:2]), int(strng[2:4]), int(strng[4:])
>         date.__init__(self,yy,mm,dd)
> 
> But then this statement:
> d = date2('12312008')
> 
> Causes:
> TypeError: function takes exactly 3 arguments (1 given)
> 
> Is there something basically wrong with subclassing date?
> -Rick King

datetime.date is a C extension class. Subclassing of extension classes
may not always work as you'd expect it.

Christian