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[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Oct 1 17:03:25 CEST 2012 
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012 09:52:09 -0500
Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My thought was that it's better to have *something* always available,
> that has a decent chance of being "good enough" in a lot of cases (and
> if it's good enough for you, just silence the warning), than to
> noisily fail because we can't provide a perfect solution due to
> political idiocy.  Or worse, to *silently* be wrong because someone
> assumed we had provided a perfect solution without looking too hard.

We can, and should, mention potential pitfalls in the documentation.

But I don't think a warning is warranted, anymore than for other known
issues (there are many of them at http://bugs.python.org/ :-)).

Regards

Antoine.


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