[Python-ideas] Rename time module to "posixtime"

[Michael Foord]

On 16 June 2010 10:59, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:03:06 -0700
> > Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I agree with this sentiment. The UNIX timestamp stuff should stay in
> >> time, the time tuple stuff should just go, and datetime should be
> >> fleshed out to handle all the stuff that is not a direct wrapping
> >> around libc. That way people deal with accurate datetimes as well as
> >> well understood concepts with UNIX timestamps and datetime objects.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > What? We all agree?
>
> I don't :-)
>
> We've done the stdlib reorg already, now it's time to focus on
> improving what's there, not removing things.
>


The standard library will continue to evolve in Python 3 though, with both
additions and deprecations - following our standard deprecation policy of
course.

Michael


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