[Python-Dev] Date and timetypes (was: Fixed-decimal types)

[Guido van Rossum]

> On the subject of adding new types to the standard
> library, what are the plans on dates and times?  Would
> a cut-down mxDateTime ever be considered?  It is fully
> Open Source (unlike mxODBC) and was designed for the
> DBAPI.

I don't know much about date/time types, or about mxDateTime.
My intuition is that there are too many ways to do it, and that being
compatible with commercial databases may not be the right way to do it
for core Python.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)