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Author tim.peters
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, brett.cannon, brian.curtin, daniel.urban, lemburg, mark.dickinson, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, techtonik, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2010-07-02.22:00:08
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> Do you remember why it was a good idea to
> derive datetime from date?

Why not?  A datetime is a date, but with additional behavior.  Makes inheritance conceptually natural.
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