Datetime utility functions

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> I was just writing some code which did date/time manipulations, and I
> found that the Python 2.3 datetime module does not supply a number of
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Your message arrived in the exact time.. :-)

Have a look at this:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/52956

I'll publish it somewhere an announce here once I get the
time to do so.

> My specific requirements were:
> 
> 1. Get the last day of the month contatining a given date(time). I
> really was surprised to find this one missing, as it seems to me that
> the datetime module must know what the last day for each month is, so
> exposing it wouldn't have been hard.

I don't understand this one. The last day of the month containing
a given datetime? A datetime is absolute, how would it be "contained"
in something else?

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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