On 4/12/2016 12:14, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
I cannot remember us using another datetime library. So, I don't value this "advantage" as much as you do.
They exist, and there are many cases where you would use a datetime library other than datetime for various reasons (integration in third party systems is only one reason). But this is just a tangent.
In fact the situation with pathlib is similar to datetime - before the inclusion of datetime in the stdlib, there were several datetime libraries available. Before pathlib, there were several path object libraries. Only now, the third party options offer a great deal of competition over the stdlib option, thus these many hundreds, if not thousands, of emails on the subject.
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