On 16 June 2010 10:59, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:03:06 -0700
> Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with this sentiment. The UNIX timestamp stuff should stay in
>> time, the time tuple stuff should just go, and datetime should be
>> fleshed out to handle all the stuff that is not a direct wrapping
>> around libc. That way people deal with accurate datetimes as well as
>> well understood concepts with UNIX timestamps and datetime objects.
>
> Agreed.
>
> What? We all agree?

I don't :-)

We've done the stdlib reorg already, now it's time to focus on
improving what's there, not removing things.


The standard library will continue to evolve in Python 3 though, with both additions and deprecations - following our standard deprecation policy of course.

Michael
 

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