On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Will non-ambiguous shorthands such as "Warsaw" and "GMT" be accepted?
pytz accepts GMT, so that will work. Otherwise no. > NonExistentTimeError can also be raised for is_dst=True and > is_dst=False, no? Or am I misunderstanding the semantics? No, it will only be raised when is_dst=None. The flag is there to say what timezone the resulting time should be if it is ambiguous or missing. It is true that the times that don't exist will also not exist even if you set the flag. 2012-03-25 02:30 is a time that don't exist in Europe/Warsaw, flag or not. But it will not raise an error if you set the flag to False or True, for reasons of backwards compatibility as well as ease of handling. People don't expect that certain times don't exist, and will generally not check for those exceptions. Therefore, the normal behavior is to not raise an error, but happily keep dealing with the time as if it does exist. Only of you explicitly set it to "None" will you get an error. //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
