I can write at least a pure Python implementation in the next few days, if not a full C implementation. Shouldn't be too hard since I've got a few different Cython implementations sitting around anyway.
On November 29, 2017 7:06:58 PM EST, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> >wrote: > >> >> indeed what is the holdup? I don't recall anyone saying it was a bad >idea >> in the last discussion. >> >> Do we just need an implementation? >> >> Is the one in the Bug Report not up to snuff? If not, then what's >wrong >> with it? This is just not that hard a problem to solve. >> > > >See my comment from over a year ago: < >https://bugs.python.org/issue15873#msg273609>. The proposed patch did >not >have a C implementation, but we can use the same approach as with >strptime >and call Python code from C. If users will start complaining about >performance, we can speed it up in later releases. Also the new method >needs to be documented. Overall, it does not seem to require more than >an >hour of work from a motivated developer, but the people who contributed >to >the issue in the past seem to have lost their interest.
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