Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Lie Ryan wrote: > >> But this fails with: > >> > >> TypeError: can't set attributes of built-in/extension type > >> 'datetime.date' > > > > This is because today is an attribute. In python, we can override > > attribute access to become a function call. I don't have python right > > now, but try this: > > > > del date.today > > date.today = mytoday > > It won't work. The datetime module is written in C. You can't modify a C > extension.
Hmm. Given that, Lie, maybe what you need to do is modify your code so that you call your own special purpose function to get 'today', and replace _that_ for testing, using datetime's today for production. --RDM -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
