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I am writing a class that subclasses datetime.datetime in order to add
a few specialized methods. So far the __init__ looks like this:
class myDateTime(datetime.datetime):
def __init__(self, time, *args, **kwargs):
if isinstance(time, str):
timeTuple, tzOffset = self.magicMethod(timeStr)
datetime.__init__(self, tzinfo=GenericTZ(tzoffset),
**timeTuple)
I would also like to pass in instances of datetime.datetime and have my
class wrap it in the new interface. Something like this:
mdt = myDateTime(datetime.datetime.now())
I suppose I could do something like this:
elif isinstance(time, datetime.datetime):
timetuple = time.timetuple()
tzoffset = time.utcoffset()
datetime.__init__(self, tzinfo=GenericTZ(tzoffset),
**timetuple)
However, that feels rather... awkward. Is there a better/cleaner way?
Perhaps a way to directly wrap my new interface around the passed-in
datetime.datetime instance?
Thanks...
-Ben
a few specialized methods. So far the __init__ looks like this:
class myDateTime(datetime.datetime):
def __init__(self, time, *args, **kwargs):
if isinstance(time, str):
timeTuple, tzOffset = self.magicMethod(timeStr)
datetime.__init__(self, tzinfo=GenericTZ(tzoffset),
**timeTuple)
I would also like to pass in instances of datetime.datetime and have my
class wrap it in the new interface. Something like this:
mdt = myDateTime(datetime.datetime.now())
I suppose I could do something like this:
elif isinstance(time, datetime.datetime):
timetuple = time.timetuple()
tzoffset = time.utcoffset()
datetime.__init__(self, tzinfo=GenericTZ(tzoffset),
**timetuple)
However, that feels rather... awkward. Is there a better/cleaner way?
Perhaps a way to directly wrap my new interface around the passed-in
datetime.datetime instance?
Thanks...
-Ben