Sean Reifschneider jafo@tummy.com added the comment:
In this case, the docs.python.org link you point to seems to be correct, saying that it returns a timedelta. It is the docstring that says it's minutes east of UTC.
I've attached a patch which changes this wording to:
timedelta() showing offset from UTC, with negative for West of UTC
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