On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:18:10 +0530, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reminder to everyone: the current state of the art for getting up to > date tz info for Python is "pip install pytz". > > If any proposal is more complicated than that, there's absolutely no > point in changing anything. The version I liked best so far is for > Python to just install a copy of pytz automatically (shipping it in > the installer rather than downloading it). OS packagers would then > take it out (replacing it with a dependency on a pytz emulator that > used the system database instead).
Emulator? That makes no sense, I'm afraid. I think we are talking here about incorporating pytz into the stdlib. The only question is how to manage the Olson database on Windows, which has *always* been the question. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
