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

[Bruce Leban]

-1 to moving anything

The situation is confusing and moving things will add to that confusion for
a significant length of time.

What I would instead suggest is improving the docs. If I could look in one
place to find any time function it would mitigate the fact that they're
implemented in multiple places.

--- Bruce
(via android)

On Jun 16, 2010 12:56 AM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 16:01, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
>> On 15...
-1.

Please note that the time module provides access to low-level OS
provided services which the datetime module does not expose.

You cannot seriously expect that an application which happily uses
the time module (only) for its limited date/time functionality
to have to be rewritten just to stay compatible with Python.

Note that not all applications are interested in sub-second
accuracy and a computer without properly configured NTP and good
internal clock doesn't even provide this accuracy to begin with
(even if they happily pretend they do by exposing sub-second
floats).

You might want to do that for Python4 and then add all those
time module functions using struct_time to the datetime
module (returning datetime instances), but for Python3, we've
had the stdlib reorg already.

Renaming time -> posixtime falls into the same category.

The only improvement I could see, would be to move
calendar.timegm() to the time module, since that's where
it belongs (keeping an alias in the calendar module, of
course).


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