From: Paul Ganssle <pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 16:02:00 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add What's New entry for date subclass behavior (#11790)
X-Git-Tag: v3.8.0a2~106
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d9503c307a8b6a7b73f6344183602ffb014d3356;p=python

Add What's New entry for date subclass behavior (#11790)

This was a backwards incompatible change and should be clearly noted.

Related bugs:

bpo-32417: https://bugs.python.org/issue32417
bpo-35364: https://bugs.python.org/issue35364
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index a90bc274eb..740c608418 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ Other Language Changes
   a :exc:`SyntaxWarning` instead.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`32912`.)
 
+* Arithmetic operations between subclasses of :class:`datetime.date` or
+  :class:`datetime.datetime` and :class:`datetime.timedelta` objects now return
+  an instance of the subclass, rather than the base class. This also affects
+  the return type of operations whose implementation (directly or indirectly)
+  uses :class:`datetime.timedelta` arithmetic, such as
+  :meth:`datetime.datetime.astimezone`.
+  (Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`32417`.)
+
 
 New Modules
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