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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Jun 16 22:31:54 CEST 2010


Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 6/16/2010 5:59 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> We've done the stdlib reorg already, now it's time to focus on
>> improving what's there, not removing things.
> 
> I believe deprecating (in the docs, at least) confusing near duplicates
> would be improvement for newcomers.

Agreed. It would be useful to add a note to the time module
docs pointing newbies directly to the datetime module. For experts,
the time module is still very useful to have around.

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