Class date

Lib/_pydatetime.py:959–1298

Concrete date type. Constructors: __new__() fromtimestamp() today() fromordinal() strptime() Operators: __repr__, __str__ __eq__, __le__, __lt__, __ge__, __gt__, __hash__ __add__, __radd__, __sub__ (add/radd only with timedelta arg) Methods: time

timedelta.resolution = timedelta(microseconds=1)

class date:
    """Concrete date type.

    Constructors:

    __new__()
    fromtimestamp()
    today()
    fromordinal()
    strptime()

    Operators:

    __repr__, __str__
    __eq__, __le__, __lt__, __ge__, __gt__, __hash__
    __add__, __radd__, __sub__ (add/radd only with timedelta arg)

    Methods:

    timetuple()
    toordinal()
    weekday()
    isoweekday(), isocalendar(), isoformat()
    ctime()
    strftime()

    Properties (readonly):
    year, month, day
    """
    __slots__ = '_year', '_month', '_day', '_hashcode'

    def __new__(cls, year, month=None, day=None):
        """Constructor.

        Arguments:

        year, month, day (required, base 1)
        """
        if (month is None and
            isinstance(year, (bytes, str)) and len(year) == 4 and
            1 <= ord(year[2:3]) <= 12):
            # Pickle support
            if isinstance(year, str):
                try:
                    year = year.encode('latin1')
                except UnicodeEncodeError:
                    # More informative error message.
                    raise ValueError(
                        "Failed to encode latin1 string when unpickling "
                        "a date object. "
                        "pickle.load(data, encoding='latin1') is assumed.")
            self = object.__new__(cls)
            self.__setstate(year)
            self._hashcode = -1
            return self
        year, month, day = _check_date_fields(year, month, day)
        self = object.__new__(cls)
        self._year = year