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[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Oct 1 16:12:26 CEST 2012 
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:06:18 +0200
Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, that's not a bad idea. My original idea was to warn if it *was*
> outdated, but since there is no way to check that, I scratched that idea.
> But as I have pointed out several times, a database that is shipped with
> Python is almost guaranteed to be outdated, so yeah, we could just warn
> *all the time*. :-)
> 
> I like this idea. It gives an incentive to update: Get rid of the annoying
> warning.

Well, no, it is just silly. If we ship a database, that's because we
think it is good enough. A warning is just a nuisance here. We don't
display warnings when the installed Python version is too old.

Regards

Antoine.


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