Sorry, should have replied to the list... --- Andy Robinson <captainrobbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 08:37:18 -0800 (PST) From: Andy Robinson <captainrobbo@yahoo.com> Reply-to: andy@robanal.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Date and timetypes (was: Fixed-decimal types) To: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
I don't know much about date/time types, or about mxDateTime. My intuition is that there are too many ways to do it, and that being compatible with commercial databases may not be
--- Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> wrote: the
right way to do it for core Python.
OK. Let me rephrase it. Say we form a consensus on 'the right way'. Are you amenable to some solution which goes back before 1970 and after 2038 going into the standard library?
And does your answer change if it involves some compiled code as well?
I mention mxDateTime because it was agreed by a Python SIG, is mature and stable, and I find it very useful. And the core type is pretty small - much of the helper stuff in the package now could be kept separate from the main Python distribution.
- Andy
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