Colin J. Williams wrote: > I wish to sub-class (if that's the right word) datetime and to use a > different signature for the constructor. > > The second part has gone smoothly, but it is difficult to access the > type's methods from the sub-class instance. > What's difficult? >>> from datetime import datetime >>> class mydt(datetime): pass ... >>> dt=mydt(2007,8,15) >>> dt.day 15 >>> dt.now() mydt(2007, 8, 15, 18, 57, 58, 562000)
How did you overwrite the constuctor? Are you sure your constructor really returns a subclass of datetime? > I'm beginning to wonder whether it might might be simpler to write my > own Date class. > If you only want to change the signature of the constuctor, just write a factory function. > Does anyone have any comments please? > > Colin W. > Have fun, Michael -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
