What is the oldest time that can be represented in Python?

Question

I have written a function comp(time1, time2) which will return True when time1 is less than time2. I have a scenario where

Answer 1

In python, the datetime object exports the following constants

datetime.MINYEAR
The smallest year number allowed in a date or datetime object. MINYEAR is 1.

datetime.MAXYEAR
The largest year number allowed in a date or datetime object. MAXYEAR is 9999.

http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html