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[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sun Dec 30 10:47:00 CET 2012 
On 29 Dec, 2012, at 5:48, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

The module could be split into several modules in a package without affecting the public API if that would help with maintenance, simular to unittest. 

Ronald

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