Re: [Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-13 Thread Guido van Rossum
On 11/12/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guido van Rossum wrote: IMO it was an oversight. Or we were all exhausted. I keep copying those three classes from the docs, which is silly. :-) I'll whip up a patch. would the embedded python module approach I'm using for _elementtree

[Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
I guess I should remember, but what's the rationale for not including even a single concrete tzinfo implementation in the standard library? not even a UTC class? or am I missing something? /F ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-12 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fredrik Lundh schrieb: I guess I should remember, but what's the rationale for not including even a single concrete tzinfo implementation in the standard library? not even a UTC class? or am I missing something? If you are asking for a time-zone database, such as pytz

Re: [Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote: I guess I should remember, but what's the rationale for not including even a single concrete tzinfo implementation in the standard library? not even a UTC class? or am I missing something? If you are asking for a time-zone database I was more thinking of basic

Re: [Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 12, 2006, at 3:55 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: would anyone mind if I added the above classes to the datetime module ? +1. I mean, we have an example of UTC in the docs, so, er, why not include it in the stdlib?! - -Barry -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-12 Thread Guido van Rossum
IMO it was an oversight. Or we were all exhausted. I keep copying those three classes from the docs, which is silly. :-) On 11/12/06, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I should remember, but what's the rationale for not including even a single concrete tzinfo implementation in the

Re: [Python-Dev] ready-made timezones for the datetime module

2006-11-12 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Guido van Rossum wrote: IMO it was an oversight. Or we were all exhausted. I keep copying those three classes from the docs, which is silly. :-) I'll whip up a patch. would the embedded python module approach I'm using for _elementtree be okay, or should this go into a support library ? /F