dateutil 1.4

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Version 1.4 of dateutil is out:

http://labix.org/python-dateutil


Changes since 1.3
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- Fixed another parser precision problem on conversion of decimal seconds
  to microseconds, as reported by Erik Brown.  Now these issues are gone
  for real since it's not using floating point arithmetic anymore.

- Fixed case where tzrange.utcoffset and tzrange.dst() might fail due
  to a date being used where a datetime was expected (reported and fixed
  by Lennart Regebro).

- Prevent tzstr from introducing daylight timings in strings that didn't
  specify them (reported by Lennart Regebro).

- Calls like gettz("GMT+3") and gettz("UTC-2") will now return the
  expected values, instead of the TZ variable behavior.

- Fixed DST signal handling in zoneinfo files.  Reported by
  Nicholas F. Fabry and John-Mark Gurney.


What is it?
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The dateutil module provides powerful extensions to the standard
datetime module, available in Python 2.3+.


Features
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* Computing of relative deltas (next month, next year,
  next monday, last week of month, and a lot more);

* Computing of relative deltas between two given
  date and/or datetime objects;

* Computing of dates based on very flexible recurrence rules
  (every month, every week on Thursday and Friday, every
  Friday 13th, and a *LOT* more), using a superset of the
  iCalendar RFC specification. Parsing of RFC strings is
  supported as well.

* Generic parsing of dates in almost any string format;

* Timezone (tzinfo) implementations for tzfile(5) format
  files (/etc/localtime, /usr/share/zoneinfo, etc), TZ
  environment string (in all known formats), iCalendar
  format files, given ranges (with help from relative deltas),
  local machine timezone, fixed offset timezone, UTC
  timezone, and Windows registry-based timezones.

* Internal up-to-date world timezone information based on
  Olson's database.

* Computing of Easter Sunday dates for any given year,
  using Western, Orthodox or Julian algorithms;

* More than 400 test cases.


-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net