23 Dec
1999
23 Dec
'99
10:23 a.m.
On the subject of adding new types to the standard library, what are the plans on dates and times? Would a cut-down mxDateTime ever be considered? It is fully Open Source (unlike mxODBC) and was designed for the DBAPI.
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 the right way to do it for core Python.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)