[issue6280] calendar.timegm() belongs in time module, next to time.gmtime()

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

With recent enhancements to datetime module, timegm has become a 1-liner:

EPOCH = 1970
_EPOCH_DATETIME = datetime.datetime(EPOCH, 1, 1)
_SECOND = datetime.timedelta(seconds=1)

def timegm(tuple):
    """Unrelated but handy function to calculate Unix timestamp from GMT."""
    return (datetime.datetime(*tuple[:6]) - _EPOCH_DATETIME) // _SECOND

I suggest committing modernized implementation to serve as a reference and encourage people to use datetime module and datetime objects instead of time module and time tuples.

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assignee:  -> belopolsky
nosy: +belopolsky, mark.dickinson -Alexander.Belopolsky
priority: normal -> low
stage: needs patch -> commit review
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17566/issue6280-calendar.diff

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