_robby wrote: > I am looking at using pytz in a scheduling application which will be > used internationally. I would like to be able to update the definition > files that pytz uses monthly or bi-monthly. > > As far as I can tell, pytz seems to be updated (fairly) regularly to > the newest tzdata, but I don't want to have to update my pytz, just > it's definitions. > > http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm says that pytz "compiles tz > source into Python." Does this mean that there is already a method for > updating the definitions? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it is to point out > something obvious which I over looked. > > - Robby
pytz's build process is rather complicated (e.g., a list of all time zones is appended to pytz/__init__.py). I really don't think it would be worth the effort. python-dateutil [1] [2] provides time zone support similar to pytz's, among other features. It keeps the time zone files in a tarball and I'm pretty sure it would be easy to update. I still don't get why you'd want to go to the effort though. Upgrading the whole package is easy. It's not like pytz gets a new API every version. [1] <http://labix.org/python-dateutil> [2] <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil/> -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
