New submission from Jess Austin <jess.aus...@gmail.com>: datetime is a wonderful module. Perhaps the only inconvenient aspect of using it is dealing with month calculations and comparisons. This patch adds a simple class, monthdelta, which represents date offsets in terms of months. It supports basic integer-like arithmetic, and also it may be added to dates and datetimes. It deals sensibly with leap-year and month-length issues. Also provided is a function, monthmod (named by imperfect analogy to divmod), which allows round-tripping: that is, taking 2 dates and returning a (monthdelta, timedelta) tuple that represents the interim between the dates.
Note: I have named the class "monthdelta", but in light of recent python-dev discussions I should probably rename this to "MonthDelta". ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 83272 nosy: jess.austin severity: normal status: open title: datetime.MonthDelta type: feature request versions: Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5434> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
