[Python-ideas] datetime: Support infinity

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 00:49:16 CET 2015


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:36 PM, <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015, at 06:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > If I'm reading this page correctly, PostgreSQL supports a lot of dates
> > that Python doesn't, up to 5874897AD:
>
> Why doesn't Python support these?


YAGNI.  4-digit year is enough for all practical purposes.
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