ENH: Support scalar operations against python `datetime` and `timedelta`
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Description
Proposed new feature or change:
import datetime as dt
import numpy as np
np.timedelta64(1, "D") + dt.timedelta(days=1) # ✅ supported
array = np.array([np.timedelta64(1, "D"), np.timedelta64(2, "D")])
array + dt.timedelta(days=1) # ❌ not supported
# ufunc 'add' cannot use operands with types dtype('<m8[D]') and dtype('O')
np.timedelta64 and np.datetime64 already support scalar operation against with the built-in datetime.datetime and datetime/timedelta types, however ndarray does not.
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Research direction
Reproduce the scalar and array examples from the issue and trace the ndarray ufunc handling behind the reported add error. Identify the relevant NumPy tests for datetime64/timedelta64 operations, then verify that the array expression works with Python datetime and timedelta values while existing scalar behavior remains unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- numpy, python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100