This construct didn't work under PyPy, as a result of the fact that
datetime is implemented in Python in PyPy:
A simplification of the problem is this:
import datetime
class X(datetime.datetime):
pass
now = datetime.datetime.now()
X.isoformat(now)
This works under CPython, but fails under PyPy. This is because PyPy
creates a normal unbound method for `X.isoformat`, which checks that
`now` is an instance of `X`, which it isn't. Because datetime is
implemented in C, CPython skips those checks.
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