[I'm Gerrit Holl (18) and I've been using Python for 3-4 years] Alex Martelli wrote:
time, datetime, calendar -- many real programs want to deal with dates and times
In my opinion, we should not include all three in the tutorial. I think only datetime should be included. datetime has largely the same niche as time, with the difference that datetime is object oriented and time is not. In my opinion, this makes datetime superior to time. Further, I think calender isn't used a lot... calendar, format3c, format3cstring, month, monthcalendar, prcal, prmonth, prweek, week, weekheader Those mostly copy the unix cal utility. They probably can be useful, but I'm not sure when. Don't most GUI's provide tools for selecting a date from a window? isleap, leapdays Useful functions. Never used them, though. firstweekday, setfirstweekday Don't really know when/why to use them timegm Doesn't belong here I think the calendar module does not contain enough functionality in order to justify it to be included in the tutorial. I think datetime does belong in the tutorial, while time and calendar do not. yours, Gerrit. -- 242. If any one hire oxen for a year, he shall pay four gur of corn for plow-oxen. -- 1780 BC, Hammurabi, Code of Law -- Asperger's Syndrome - a personal approach: http://people.nl.linux.org/~gerrit/english/