Initialize from existing datetime.date object?

[jacebrowning]

pendulum.instance(dt) works for datetime.datetime, but how can I initialize a Pendulum object from an existing datetime.date (specifically a Django DateField)?

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My current workaround:

pendulum.parse(str(date_object))

[ghost]

from datetime import datetime as dt
import pendulum
pendulum.instance(dt.fromordinal(date_object.toordinal()))

This should work.

Edit:
This is better:

pendulum.datetime(date.year,date.month,date.day)

[jacebrowning]

Could we add that behavior to pendulum.instance()?

[kakulukia]

+1

[trancee]

+1

I would also check for datetime.time so we have all possible cases of a datetime covered with Pendulum.

[joaodlf]

+1 This would be a great addition to the API!

[SemMulder]

+1

[joaomcarlos]

+1

[racerthunder]

+1

[lonsun]

+1

[Alsanis]

+1

[rodrigondec]

+1

[madisvain]

I would like to pump this. I find doing this over and over and would love if pendulum had this feature built in.

[AaronBeaudoin]

This is a no-brainer for me. I work with an ORM that returns datetime.date instances, and having to pick them apart to pass them into pendulum.instance feels like the symptom of a missing feature.

[richieadler]

+1

[kakulukia]

I have created a first draft at https://github.com/kakulukia/pendulum .. im missing some tests before opening a puss request, but like to get some feedback first.

[blondelg]

+1

[yardensachs]

+1

[lena]

+1

[mcguigon0033]

+1

[jackb2113]

+1

[codytowstik]

+1 !

[FichteFoll]

I've also looked into the documentation & the code in search for this behavior. In the code, I see that even the shorthand class functions to initialize a Date like today first construct a native datetime.date object before they create the instance using its result. This surely would also profit from a Date.instance class function constructor.

pendulum/pendulum/date.py

Lines 740 to 755 in c4e518c

	def today(cls) -> Self:
	dt = date.today()
	return cls(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day)
	@classmethod
	def fromtimestamp(cls, t: float) -> Self:
	dt = super().fromtimestamp(t)
	return cls(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day)
	@classmethod
	def fromordinal(cls, n: int) -> Self:
	dt = super().fromordinal(n)
	return cls(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day)