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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > > OK.  Let me rephrase it.  Say we form a consensus on 'the right
> > > way'.  Are you amenable to some solution which goes back before
> > > 1970 and after 2038 going into the standard library?
> 
> No problem.
> 
> > > And does your answer change if it involves some
> > > compiled code as well?
> 
> I'd rather not.

As far as mxDateTime goes, I'd rather not see it in the core
distribution. Including the mx stuff in a separate PythonPowerTools
distribution would be cool though. For a start in this direction
see e.g.:

     http://startship.skyport.net/~lemburg/PPowerTools-0.2.zip

Note that I'll wrap all my mx extensions into a new mx package
which will come in several flavours next year. There will no
longer be separate packages due to the various naming
collisions and to enable intra-mx-package dependencies.

-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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