New submission from Damian Yurzola <dam...@yurzola.net>:
Last night I discovered we have datetime.datetime.today alongside datetime.datetime.now and datetime.date.today. - datetime.now - date.today Both make semantic sense. datetime.datetime.today returns a datetime, which make no semantic sense and causes confusion. On further inspection of the code, this is due to the fact that datetime inherits from date. so datetime.today is practically an implementation of datetime.now minus the "tz". I think we should implement a datetime.today only to rise an AttributeError or some other way to stop people from using the wrong semantic mental model. We'd also need to remove the documentation entry: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.today >From this inspection we also find that: datetime.hour/minute/second are unnecessarily redefined. lines Lib/datetime.py#L1606 to datetime.py#L1620 could be removed without any ill effect. date.today: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/256e54acdbdb26745d4bbb5cf366454151e42773/Lib/datetime.py#L833 https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.today ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 377768 nosy: yurzo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: datetime.datetime.today makes no sense and should be removed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41904> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
