Paul Ganssle <p.gans...@gmail.com> added the comment:
So I created a little patch for this, and when I was working on it I realized that it's actually possible to implement full `fold` support in a generic way in `fromutc` under the assumption that `utcoffset - dst` holds at all points (which is the fundamental assumption of the builtin `fromutc` function). It adds a bit of overhead, but I think any current fold-aware operations need to be implemented in pure Python anyway (and involve even more overhead), so I think it would be a net gain. The big downside I see here is that it cannot take advantage of any sort of "is_ambiguous" function and has to rely on the method of "change the fold and see if the answer is different" to determine ambiguity. I think this is a small cost to pay for a generic implementation, though. I'm pretty busy this week and next week will be hectic too, but towards the end of the month I can probably come up with a test suite for this and look at some actual performance numbers. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue28602> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
