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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions Doc/library/datetime.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1209,6 +1209,9 @@ Supported operations:

Naive and aware :class:`!datetime` objects are never equal.

If both comparands are aware, and have the same :attr:`!tzinfo` attribute,
the :attr:`!tzinfo` and :attr:`~.datetime.fold` attributes are ignored and
the base datetimes are compared.
If both comparands are aware and have different :attr:`~.datetime.tzinfo`
attributes, the comparison acts as comparands were first converted to UTC
datetimes except that the implementation never overflows.
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Order comparison between naive and aware :class:`.datetime` objects
raises :exc:`TypeError`.

If both comparands are aware, and have the same :attr:`!tzinfo` attribute,
the :attr:`!tzinfo` and :attr:`~.datetime.fold` attributes are ignored and
the base datetimes are compared.
If both comparands are aware and have different :attr:`~.datetime.tzinfo`
attributes, the comparison acts as comparands were first converted to UTC
datetimes except that the implementation never overflows.
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Order comparison between naive and aware :class:`!time` objects raises
:exc:`TypeError`.

If both comparands are aware, and have
the same :attr:`~.time.tzinfo` attribute, the common :attr:`!tzinfo` attribute is
If both comparands are aware, and have the same :attr:`~.time.tzinfo`
attribute, the :attr:`!tzinfo` and :attr:`!fold` attributes are
ignored and the base times are compared. If both comparands are aware and
have different :attr:`!tzinfo` attributes, the comparands are first adjusted by
subtracting their UTC offsets (obtained from ``self.utcoffset()``).
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