the Gravity of Python 2

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/09/2014 10:18 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 16:01, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> On 01/09/2014 12:42 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> On 09/01/2014 01:27, Roy Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Naive datetimes are what everybody uses.  It's what utcnow() gives you.
>>>> So why make life difficult for everybody?  Python 3 didn't win a convert
>>>> today.
>>>
>>> Yep, dates and times are easy.  That's why there are 17 issues open on
>>> the bug tracker referencing tzinfo alone.  Poor
>>> old 1100942 is high priority, was created 12/01/2005 and has missed
>>> 3.4.  So if it gets into 3.5 it'll have already
>>> celebrated its 10th birthday.  It doesn't say much for the amount of
>>> effort that we put into looking after issues.
>>
>> Mark, I hope you are addressing the community at large and not the
>> core-devs.  There are only so many of us, with limited time available.
>
> As I'm not a core dev to whom do you think I'm referring?

Cool, just double-checking.  :)


> Still, you can no more enforce that than you can enforce the core devs
>  working on Python 2.8 :)
>
> Talking of which, have we got a PEP for that yet. . .

As a matter of fact.  It's called PEP 404.  ;)

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~Ethan~