I am attempting to subclass the date class from the datetime package. Basically I want a subclass that can take the date as a string (in multiple formats), parse the string and derive the year,month and day information to create a date instance i.e.
class MyDate(datetime.date): def __init__(self, the_date): # magic happens here to derives year, month and day from the_date datetime.date.__init__(self, year, month, day) But no matter what I do, when I attempt to create an instance of the new class, I get the error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: Required argument 'year' (pos 1) not found I have even created a class which doesn't include the argument I want to use but with default arguments i.e. class MyDate (datetime.date): def __init__(self, year = 1, month = 1, day = 1): datetime.date.__init__(self, year, month, day) and get the same error message. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks for any help, Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list