On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lennart Regebro <regebro@gmail.com> wrote:
Happy Holidays! Here is the update of PEP 431 with the changes that emerged after the earlier discussion.
A raw download is here: https://raw.github.com/regebro/tz-pep/master/pep-04tz.txt
For UI purposes, "pytz" has some helpers to get lists of timezone names (all, common and country specific): http://pytz.sourceforge.net/#helpers Is there a specific reason you chose to exclude those from the PEP?
Discussion ==========
Should the windows installer include the data package? ------------------------------------------------------
It has been suggested that the Windows installer should include the data package. This would mean that an explicit installation no longer would be needed on Windows. On the other hand, that would mean that many using Windows would not be aware that the database quickly becomes outdated and would not keep it updated.
I'm still a fan of *always* shipping fallback tzdata, regardless of platform. The stdlib would then look in three places for timezone data when datetime.timezone was first imported: 1. the "tzdata-update" database 2. the OS provided database 3. the fallback database Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia