datetime.time and midnight

MRAB google at mrabarnett.plus.com
Sat Feb 21 18:55:23 EST 2009


Ethan Furman wrote:
> Greetings, List!
> 
> I was curious if anyone knew the rationale behind making midnight False?
> 
> --> import datetime
> --> midnight = datetime.time(0,0,0)
> --> bool(midnight)
> False
> 
> To my way of thinking, midnight does actually exist so it should be 
> true.  If datetime.time was measuring an *amount* of time, rather than a 
> certain point during the day, then a time of 0:0:0 should certainly be 
> False as it would mean no time had passed.  However, since midnight does 
> indeed exist (as many programmers have observed when deadlines approach 
> ;) I would think it should be true.
> 
I think it's because midnight is to the time of day what zero is to
integers, or an empty string is to strings, or an empty container ...



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