[Python-Dev] dateutil

Gerrit gerrit at nl.linux.org
Thu Mar 11 08:05:32 EST 2004


Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> Yes, it's time for the classical question. ;-)
> 
> What's your opinion about the inclusion of the dateutil[1]
> extension in the standard library?
> 
> [1] https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil

In this context, PEP 321 and the discussion about it are relevant:

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0321.html
http://groups.google.nl/groups?threadm=ad6u7j09.fsf%40yahoo.co.uk

I am in favour of including something like DatuUtil in the standard
library. I need it often enough, e.g., to find out out when two weeks after
24 Feb is is easier with DateUtil than with datetime, and I think
datetime lacks a strptime. IMO it should be possible to do all date/time
arithmetic without the time module; I don't like the time module.

My 20 milli-euro's ;-)

Gerrit.

P.S.
"cal 9 1752" would also be nice to have in Python ;-)

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