[Python-ideas] Pythonic Dates, Times, and Deltas

[Daniel G. Taylor]

  Hey,

I've recently been doing a lot of work with dates related to payment and 
statistics processing at work and have run into several annoyances with 
the built-in datetime, date, time, timedelta, etc classes, even when 
adding in relativedelta. They are awkward, non-intuitive and not at all 
Pythonic to me. Over the past year I've written up a library for making 
my life a bit easier and  figured I would post some information here to 
see what others think, and to gauge whether or not such a library might 
be PEP-worthy.

My original post about it was here:

http://programmer-art.org/articles/programming/pythonic-date

The github project page is here:

http://github.com/danielgtaylor/paodate

This is code that is and has been running in production environments for 
months but may still contain bugs. I have tried to include unit tests 
and ample documentation. I'd love to get some feedback and people's 
thoughts.

I would also love to hear what others find is difficult or missing from 
the built-in date and time handling.

Take care,

-- 
Daniel G. Taylor
http://programmer-art.org/