[Python-ideas] Top 10 Python modules that need a redesign Was: Geo coordinates conversion in stdlib

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On 2015-04-04 21:16, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
> <mailto:breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
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>  > I don't understand why people bother with this gentleman.
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> I did see constructive input from Anatoly on the bug tracker before.  I
> believe other developers did too.  Granted, in the last few years
> signal-to-noise ratio in his posts was rather low, but I usually ignore
> the "from:" header in the technical discussions.
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> I am genuinely interested in the ways to improve date/time formatting in
> Python.  There are certainly better ways than stftime.  For example, ICU
> has a date/time format syntax that is much more readable: instead of
> "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", ICU format is "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss".
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> I don't think it is hard to find a way to introduce ICU format in
> datetime.__format__ while preserving backward compatibility.  For
> example, we may require that % is always "escaped" as '%' in ICU format
> and the presence of unescaped % can trigger strftime interpretation.
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> [1] http://userguide.icu-project.org/formatparse/datetime
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Personally, I prefer some kind of escaping, possibly in the style of
.format, e.g. "{year}-{month}-{day} {hour}:{minute}:{second}". (It'll
probably need a little tinkering to shorten it! :-))