[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[Barry Warsaw]

On Oct 02, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>Reminder to everyone: the current state of the art for getting up to
>date tz info for Python is "pip install pytz".
>
>If any proposal is more complicated than that, there's absolutely no
>point in changing anything. The version I liked best so far is for
>Python to just install a copy of pytz automatically (shipping it in
>the installer rather than downloading it). OS packagers would then
>take it out (replacing it with a dependency on a pytz emulator that
>used the system database instead).

Why wouldn't the stdlib just ship with that emulator by default then?  If your
OS doesn't have a system database, then you `pip install pytz` ftw.

Cheers,
-Barry