[issue7989] Add pure Python implementation of datetime module to CPython

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc <amauryfa at gmail.com> added the comment:

>> One, we should not blindly pull in the PyPy code
>> without some core PyPy developer being in on this

You can count me among the PyPy developers.

> I concur.  Much of PyPy code is written for a restricted subset of
> Python instead of clean, idiomatic modern Python.

Not this part. The module datetime.py is meant to be imported by the interpreter, and has no limitation (we call it "application-level" code, opposed to interpreter-level code which is translated to C and which indeed has serious constraints)

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