On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:59:03 +0200, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
That's what I meant. It's not an emulator. --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
