[DB-SIG] Re: DCOracle2 Installation Issues on Linux Redhat 7.4

[Kevin Jacobs]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > These can then be trivially converted to mx.DateTime objects (as long as
> > leap seconds aren't a big deal).
> 
> Why should leap seconds matter ?

I was joking -- there seems to be a lot of discussion about ignoring leap
seconds wrt DateTime.

> > Your thoughts?
> 
> I can add them to the PEP, if that should matter.
> 
> However, you should know that the datetime module in Python 2.3 does
> not provide a C API of its own, so integration with C code is not as
> easy as with mxDateTime. And, of course, the datetime module is
> not available in Python 1.5.2 - 2.2.

I understand -- despite those limitations, I'm hoping that driver module
authors will include support for both.  That way those who don't want to
download and install an extra package win, and those that are happy to do so
also win.

Thanks,
-Kevin

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