[Python-Dev] dateutil

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> 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

Indeed. I've followed it at the time it happened. Do you see
anything which should be considered before including dateutil in
the standard library?

> 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.

I don't think the dateutil functionality is provided by the time
module at all.

> My 20 milli-euro's ;-)

Thanks! :_)

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

>>> print calendar.month(1972, 9)
   September 1972
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
             1  2  3
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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