[Datetime-SIG] PEP-431/495

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
wrote:
>
> But, really, I hate all the options for the flag name. I lean towards
> is_dst mainly because people are used to it.

Ironically, you created one of the reasons I did not want any mention of
"dst" in the new attribute: the way pytz's localize() uses is_dst is so
different from the way mktime() uses tm_isdst, that creating a third set of
rules for a variable with a similar name was out of the question.

If you have time, please re-read the answer to "Why not call the new flag
'isdst'?" [1] in the PEP and let me know if it needs any improvements.

[1]:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0495/#why-not-call-the-new-flag-isdst
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