mktime() like function to produce GMT?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Mark Nottingham <mnot at pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm sure there are prettier, faster ways to do this to the code  (BTW,
> assert isn't clearly documented in the reference, AFAIK):

http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/assert.html

    "Assert statements are a convenient way to insert
    debugging assertions into a program"

    "The current code generator emits no code for an
    assert statement when optimization is requested at
    compile time"

in other words, this is not a great way to
use assert...

>     try:
>         assert year >= EPOCH
>     except AssertionError:
>         if year < 69:
>             year = year + 2000
>         else:
>             year = year + 1900

you may wish to change that to something more
similar to:

    if year < 70:
        year = year + 2000
    elif year < 100:
        year = year + 1900
    assert year >= EPOCH

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