#1330538: Improve comparison of xmlrpclib.DateTime and datetime instances.
Remove automatic handling of datetime.date and datetime.time.
This breaks backward compatibility, but python-dev discussion was strongly
against this automatic conversion; see the bug for a link.
diff --git a/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst b/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
index 1c50b79..9dd6c0e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst
@@ -34,10 +34,7 @@
all clients and servers; see http://ontosys.com/xml-rpc/extensions.php for a
description. The *use_datetime* flag can be used to cause date/time values to
be presented as :class:`datetime.datetime` objects; this is false by default.
- :class:`datetime.datetime`, :class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.time`
- objects may be passed to calls. :class:`datetime.date` objects are converted
- with a time of "00:00:00". :class:`datetime.time` objects are converted using
- today's date.
+ :class:`datetime.datetime` objects may be passed to calls.
Both the HTTP and HTTPS transports support the URL syntax extension for HTTP
Basic Authentication: ``http://user:pass@host:port/path``. The ``user:pass``
@@ -81,9 +78,7 @@
+---------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| :const:`dates` | in seconds since the epoch (pass in an |
| | instance of the :class:`DateTime` class) or |
- | | a :class:`datetime.datetime`, |
- | | :class:`datetime.date` or |
- | | :class:`datetime.time` instance |
+ | | a :class:`datetime.datetime` instance. |
+---------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| :const:`binary data` | pass in an instance of the :class:`Binary` |
| | wrapper class |
@@ -221,10 +216,10 @@
DateTime Objects
----------------
-This class may be initialized with seconds since the epoch, a time tuple, an ISO
-8601 time/date string, or a :class:`datetime.datetime`, :class:`datetime.date`
-or :class:`datetime.time` instance. It has the following methods, supported
-mainly for internal use by the marshalling/unmarshalling code:
+This class may be initialized with seconds since the epoch, a time
+tuple, an ISO 8601 time/date string, or a :class:`datetime.datetime`
+instance. It has the following methods, supported mainly for internal
+use by the marshalling/unmarshalling code:
.. method:: DateTime.decode(string)
@@ -507,10 +502,7 @@
``None`` if no method name is present in the packet. If the XML-RPC packet
represents a fault condition, this function will raise a :exc:`Fault` exception.
The *use_datetime* flag can be used to cause date/time values to be presented as
- :class:`datetime.datetime` objects; this is false by default. Note that even if
- you call an XML-RPC method with :class:`datetime.date` or :class:`datetime.time`
- objects, they are converted to :class:`DateTime` objects internally, so only
- :class:`datetime.datetime` objects will be returned.
+ :class:`datetime.datetime` objects; this is false by default.
.. versionchanged:: 2.5
The *use_datetime* flag was added.