Exact lookups on DateTimeField() with datetime.date object does not work

[John-Scott Atlakson]

In ​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/ there are several examples of passing in datetime.date() objects (notice it's not a datetime.datetime() object) as lookup parameters on a DateTimeField(). See ​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#spanning-multi-valued-relationships for one such example:

Blog.objects.filter(entry__headline__contains='Lennon',
        entry__pub_date=datetime.date.today())

The only way I've been able to get the intended behavior is through the use of the range lookup:

today = datetime.date(2008, 6, 26)
tomorrow = datetime.date(2005, 6, 27)
Blog.objects.filter(entry__headline__contains='Lennon', 
        entry__pub_date__range=(today, tomorrow))

I'm assuming this is just a documentation issue, rather than a query bug.

[Dan Watson]

Speaking to the author of this documentation (Malcolm wishes to remain nameless), this is indeed a documentation bug. Patch to follow.

[Dan Watson]

doc update

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [8232]) Fixed #7546 -- Fixed an incorrect example in the docs that was misleading some
people. Patch from Dan Watson.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.0 deleted