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
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