Jess Austin <jess.aus...@gmail.com> added the comment: A comment on the two most recent patches... For both of these, we can do the following:
>>> from datetime import timedelta >>> td = timedelta(12) >>> td datetime.timedelta(12) >>> td //= 3 >>> td datetime.timedelta(4) >>> td //= timedelta(2) >>> td 2 # CHANGED VARIABLE TYPE! I think the last operation will trap unsuspecting programmers, and provide no benefit for the savvy. There really is no reason to allow an in-place operation like this to change the type of the variable so drastically. (That is, I realize a similar thing could happen with ints and floats, but it seems worse with timedeltas and ints.) I feel the last operation should raise a TypeError, even though it would be quite valid for a non-in-place operation. ---------- nosy: +jess.austin _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2706> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
