[Python-Dev] Year 0 and year 10,000 in timetuple

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Jun 19, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> But what if they are used intentionally as "impossible" or sentinel  
> values?
>

That would be another reason not to produce them accidently.  Note  
that I am proposing disallowing production of out of range years from  
valid datetime objects, not consumption of them if that is allowed  
anywhere.