[issue3173] external strftime for Python?

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as strftime, someone could
> look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode standards:
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns

This scheme is very elegant.  I’d love to have built-in/stdlib support for it.  Would it need to be implemented in C?

> Apparently there is a free implementation for Python out there:
> http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/dates.html#pattern-syntax

Babel just rocks :)

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