On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:02 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > 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.
It wouldn't emulate anything, though. Ubuntu already does this, they ship a version of pytz that includes no database, and just point it to /usr/share/zoneinfo instead. //Lennart _______________________________________________ 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
