datetime question

Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org
Sat Oct 31 05:54:00 EDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 20:34 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Fixing ‘time’, ‘datetime’, and ‘calendar’ was the reason for Python 3?
> No, it wasn't.
> 
> Or perhaps you mean that any backward-incompatible change was a reason
> to have Python 3? Even more firmly no. The extent of changes was
> severely limited to make the transition from Python 2 to Python 3 as
> painless as feasible, while still meeting the goals of Python 3. 

No, I meant "cleaning up the standard library in spite of
incompatibilities" was one of the goals of Python3 (PEP 3108).
Personally I don't see anything wrong with the modules, but that was my
question to the person who said they should all be integrated but wasn't
because of incompatibilities.




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