On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Tim Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> But, seriously, I still think it should be "_later" or "_first" > instead: 99.9973% of users will never have a need to understand what > it means. The datetime and tzinfo implementers will make it work by > magic for them in almost all cases. At worst, the 0.0027% of users > remaining may get irked by some anal software asking them "you know, > the time you specified is ambiguous in your current time zone - did > you intend the earlier or later time?". They'll reboot their computer > and hope the question goes away ;-) > That's why I proposed 'fold' -- it tells you "you probably don't care about this" without the leading underscore -- underscore smells too much of "internal to implementation" to me, while we really want this to be part of the API, just an obscure part. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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