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[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 05:48:01 CET 2012 
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>wrote:

>
> On 28 Dec, 2012, at 21:23, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Happy Holidays! Here is the update of PEP 431 with the changes that
> emerged after the earlier discussion.
>
> Why is the new timezone support added in a submodule of datetime?


Because several people wanted it that way and nobody objected.


> Adding the new
> function and exception to datetime itself wouldn't clutter the API that
> much


It will make the datetime.py twice as long though, and the second longest
module in the stdlib, beaten only by decimal.py. Perhaps this is not a
problem.

//Lennart
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