[Tutor] is mxDateTime recommended?

[Kent Johnson]

Lance E Sloan wrote:
> When I add that to another mxDateTime object, the month, hour, and 
> minute get set to those absolute values, but the month is reduced by 
> four.  I know I won't be able to exactly the same thing with datetime.  
> I think I could do something like this (semi-pseudocode):
> 
>  firstTime = datetime.now()
>  secondTime = firstTime - timedeltaFourMonthsObject
>  secondTime.replace( day = 14, hour = 23, minute = 59 )
> 
> The problem is that I can't figure out how to create that 
> timedeltaFourMonthsObject.  The datetime timedelta class constructor 
> doesn't allow creating a delta with a month.  Any suggestions?
> 
> (I think it's a little too bad that the timedelta class represents all 
> deltas as days and seconds.  That must be why they don't support months, 
> since months have different lengths.  IMHO...)

This thread may help:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_frm/thread/6c751e2845932c20/08466fb5a150dd9e?hl=en#08466fb5a150dd9e


> Also, how can I make a copy of a datetime object?
> 
>  timeA = datetime.now()
>  timeB = timeA # copy or reference to same object?

Reference to the same object.

one way is:
import copy
timeB = copy.copy(timeA)

Kent