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  <div class="section" id="module-autopilot.introspection.types">
<span id="autopilot-introspection-types-introspection-type-details"></span><h1><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">autopilot.introspection.types</span></code> - Introspection Type details<a class="headerlink" href="#module-autopilot.introspection.types" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="autopilot-proxy-type-support">
<h2>Autopilot proxy type support.<a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot-proxy-type-support" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>This module defines the classes that are used for all attributes on proxy
objects. All proxy objects contain attributes that transparently mirror the
values present in the application under test. Autopilot takes care of keeping
these values up to date.</p>
<p>Object attributes fall into two categories. Attributes that are a single
string, boolean, or integer property are sent directly across DBus. These are
called &#8220;plain&#8221; types, and are stored in autopilot as instnaces of the
<a class="reference internal" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.PlainType" title="autopilot.introspection.types.PlainType"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">PlainType</span></code></a> class. Attributes that are more complex (a rectangle, for
example) are called &#8220;complex&#8221; types, and are split into several component
values, sent across dbus, and are then reconstituted in autopilot into useful
objects.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="autopilot.introspection.types.PlainType">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">autopilot.introspection.types.</code><code class="descname">PlainType</code><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/autopilot/introspection/types.html#PlainType"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.PlainType" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>Plain type support in autopilot proxy objects.</p>
<p>Instances of this class will be used for all plain attrubites. The word
&#8220;plain&#8221; in this context means anything that&#8217;s marshalled as a string,
boolean or integer type across dbus.</p>
<p>Instances of these classes can be used just like the underlying type. For
example, given an object property called &#8216;length&#8217; that is marshalled over
dbus as an integer value, the following will be true:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">isinstance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">object</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">PlainType</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">isinstance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">object</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">object</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">length</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">123</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">object</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">length</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">32</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">155</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>However, a special case exists for boolean values: because you cannot
subclass from the &#8216;bool&#8217; type, the following check will fail (
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">object.visible</span></code> is a boolean property):</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">isinstance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">object</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">visible</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">bool</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">False</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>However boolean values will behave exactly as you expect them to.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="autopilot.introspection.types.Rectangle">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">autopilot.introspection.types.</code><code class="descname">Rectangle</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/autopilot/introspection/types.html#Rectangle"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.Rectangle" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>The RectangleType class represents a rectangle in cartesian space.</p>
<p>To construct a rectangle, pass the x, y, width and height parameters in to
the class constructor:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">my_rect</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Rectangle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">150</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>These attributes can be accessed either using named attributes, or via
sequence indexes:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="go">&gt;&gt;&gt;my_rect = Rectangle(12,13,100,150)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">12</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">13</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">w</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">h</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">150</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>You may also access the width and height values using the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">width</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">height</span></code> properties:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">width</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">w</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">height</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_rect</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">h</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Rectangles can be compared using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">==</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">!=</span></code>, either to another
Rectangle instance, or to any mutable sequence type:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">150</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_rect</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="n">Rectangle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="autopilot.introspection.types.Point">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">autopilot.introspection.types.</code><code class="descname">Point</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/autopilot/introspection/types.html#Point"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.Point" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>The Point class represents a 2D point in cartesian space.</p>
<p>To construct a Point, pass in the x, y parameters to the class
constructor:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_point</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Point</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>These attributes can be accessed either using named attributes, or via
sequence indexes:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_point</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_point</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_point</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_point</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Point instances can be compared using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">==</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">!=</span></code>, either to another
Point instance, or to any mutable sequence type with the correct number of
items:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_point</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_point</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="n">Point</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="autopilot.introspection.types.Size">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">autopilot.introspection.types.</code><code class="descname">Size</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/autopilot/introspection/types.html#Size"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.Size" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>The Size class represents a 2D size in cartesian space.</p>
<p>To construct a Size, pass in the width, height parameters to the class
constructor:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_size</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Size</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>These attributes can be accessed either using named attributes, or via
sequence indexes:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_size</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">width</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_size</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">w</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_size</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">50</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_size</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">height</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_size</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">h</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_size</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">100</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Size instances can be compared using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">==</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">!=</span></code>, either to another
Size instance, or to any mutable sequence type with the correct number of
items:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_size</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_size</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="n">Size</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="autopilot.introspection.types.DateTime">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">autopilot.introspection.types.</code><code class="descname">DateTime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/autopilot/introspection/types.html#DateTime"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.DateTime" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>The DateTime class represents a date and time in the UTC timezone.</p>
<p>DateTime is constructed by passing a unix timestamp in to the constructor.
The incoming timestamp is assumed to be in UTC.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>This class expects the passed in timestamp to be in UTC but will
display the resulting date and time in local time (using the local
timezone).</p>
<p class="last">This is done to mimic the behaviour of most applications which will
display date and time in local time by default</p>
</div>
<p>Timestamps are expressed as the number of seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00
in the UTC timezone:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DateTime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1377209927</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This timestamp can always be accessed either using index access or via a
named property:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timestamp</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1377209927</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>DateTime objects also expose the usual named properties you would expect on
a date/time object:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span>
<span class="go">2013</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">month</span>
<span class="go">8</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">day</span>
<span class="go">22</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hour</span>
<span class="go">22</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">minute</span>
<span class="go">18</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">second</span>
<span class="go">47</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Two DateTime objects can be compared for equality:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">DateTime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1377209927</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>You can also compare a DateTime with any mutable sequence type containing
the timestamp (although this probably isn&#8217;t very useful for test authors):</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_dt</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1377209927</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Finally, you can also compare a DateTime instance with a python datetime
instance:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_datetime</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utcfromtimestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1377209927</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Autopilot supports dates beyond 2038 on 32-bit platforms. To
achieve this the underlying mechanisms require to work with timezone aware
datetime objects.</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<div><p>This means that the following won&#8217;t always be true (due to the naive
timestamp not having the correct daylight-savings time details):</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># This time stamp is within DST in the &#39;Europe/London&#39; timezone</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dst_ts</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1405382400</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">&#39;TZ&#39;</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;Europe/London&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzset</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromtimestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dst_ts</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hour</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">DateTime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dst_ts</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hour</span>
<span class="go">False</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>But this will work:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">dateutil.tz</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">gettz</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromtimestamp</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="go">        dst_ts, gettz()).hour == DateTime(dst_ts).hour</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>And this will always work to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt1</span> <span class="o">=</span>  <span class="n">DateTime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">nz_dst_timestamp</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="go">        dt1.year, dt1.month, dt1.day, dt1.hour, dt1.minute, dt1.second</span>
<span class="go">    )</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt1</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">dt2</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div></blockquote>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">DateTime.timestamp() will not always equal the passed in
timestamp.
To paraphrase a message from [<a class="reference external" href="http://bugs.python.org/msg229393">http://bugs.python.org/msg229393</a>]
&#8220;datetime.timestamp is supposed to be inverse of
datetime.fromtimestamp(), but since the later is not monotonic, no such
inverse exists in the strict mathematical sense.&#8221;</p>
</div>
<p>DateTime instances can be converted to datetime instances:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">isinstance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">my_dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt id="autopilot.introspection.types.Time">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">autopilot.introspection.types.</code><code class="descname">Time</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>*args</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="reference internal" href="../_modules/autopilot/introspection/types.html#Time"><span class="viewcode-link">[source]</span></a><a class="headerlink" href="#autopilot.introspection.types.Time" title="Permalink to this definition"></a></dt>
<dd><p>The Time class represents a time, without a date component.</p>
<p>You can construct a Time instnace by passing the hours, minutes, seconds,
and milliseconds to the class constructor:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mo">01</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The values passed in must be valid for their positions (ie..- 0-23 for
hours, 0-59 for minutes and seconds, and 0-999 for milliseconds). Passing
invalid values will cause a ValueError to be raised.</p>
<p>The hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds can be accessed using either
index access or named properties:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hours</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_time</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">12</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">minutes</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_time</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">34</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">seconds</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_time</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mo">01</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">milliseconds</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">my_time</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">23</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Time instances can be compared to other time instances, any mutable
sequence containing four integers, or datetime.time instances:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">Time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mo">01</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">Time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">False</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mo">01</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="go">True</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_time</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mo">01</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">23000</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that the Time class stores milliseconds, while the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datettime.time</span></code>
class stores microseconds.</p>
<p>Finally, you can get a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">datetime.time</span></code> instance from a Time instance:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">isinstance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">my_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
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