[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: Or use the "original" lib on which this is all based :-) http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/ (and which, of course, does allow subtracting times) -- nosy: +lemburg ___ Python tracker

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

Chris Withers added the comment: I think so. FWIW, I'd recommend looking at: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil ...for doing things that python's builtin datetime stuff doesn't cater for. -- resolution: -> wont fix status: open -> closed __

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

Ezio Melotti added the comment: If there's no obviously best way to handle overflow, can this be closed? -- nosy: +ezio.melotti ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: George> To handle overflows, I figured it should wrap around a 24-hour George> limit. That's precisely the reason that time objects don't support arithmetic. There is no obviously best way to handle overflow. -- nosy: +skip.monta

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

George Boutsioukis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Hi Chris, I know copy-pasted sounds horrible--perhaps I should have said 'modeled afterwards'(better marketing;). The thing is, the datetime & time classes share a lot of common functionality; it is inevitable that some code looks like

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Hi George, I haven't looked at your patch but that fact that there are no unit tests and you talk about copying and pasting code, I'd suggest this might not be a good patch. Refactor so code is only in one place rather than copying and pastin

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

George Boutsioukis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I have also come across this in the past. Although I sense that some obscure reason might prevent time arithmetic from being included, here's a patch to add time/timedelta addition and subtraction. It closely follows the datetime arithmeti

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

Changes by Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- type: -> feature request versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.4, Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

[issue3250] datetime.time does not support arithmetic

New submission from Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> from datetime import time >>> time(9,0)-time(8,0) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'datetime.time' and 'datetime.time' I'd expect a datetime.timedelta(0,3600) --