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

[Alexander Walters]

It works fine for me.  It does not do EVERYTHING I need, but with 
dateutil and pytz, I am satisfied with the datetime infrastructure in 
python.  Sure, I would like things changed in it, but its not like I 
expect the every module in the standard library to work exactly how I want.


On 3/23/2015 13:21, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
>
> Speaking of the datetime module, in what sense does it not "pass human 
> usability check"?  It does have a few quirks, for example I would 
> rather see date accept a single argument in the constructor which may 
> be a string, another date or a tuple, but I am not even sure this 
> desire is shared by many other humans.  It would be nice if datetime 
> classes were named in CamelCase according to PEP 8 conventions, but 
> again this is a very minor quirk.