<p>-1 to moving anything</p>
<p>The situation is confusing and moving things will add to that confusion for a significant length of time.</p>
<p>What I would instead suggest is improving the docs. If I could look in one place to find any time function it would mitigate the fact that they're implemented in multiple places. </p>
<p>--- Bruce<br>
(via android)</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 16, 2010 12:56 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <<a href="mailto:mal@egenix.com">mal@egenix.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">Brett Cannon wrote:<br>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:01, Cameron Simpson <<a href="mailto:cs@zip.com.au">cs@zip.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On 15...</font></p>-1.<br>
<br>
Please note that the time module provides access to low-level OS<br>
provided services which the datetime module does not expose.<br>
<br>
You cannot seriously expect that an application which happily uses<br>
the time module (only) for its limited date/time functionality<br>
to have to be rewritten just to stay compatible with Python.<br>
<br>
Note that not all applications are interested in sub-second<br>
accuracy and a computer without properly configured NTP and good<br>
internal clock doesn't even provide this accuracy to begin with<br>
(even if they happily pretend they do by exposing sub-second<br>
floats).<br>
<br>
You might want to do that for Python4 and then add all those<br>
time module functions using struct_time to the datetime<br>
module (returning datetime instances), but for Python3, we've<br>
had the stdlib reorg already.<br>
<br>
Renaming time -> posixtime falls into the same category.<br>
<br>
The only improvement I could see, would be to move<br>
calendar.timegm() to the time module, since that's where<br>
it belongs (keeping an alias in the calendar module, of<br>
course).<br>
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