[Tutor] is mxDateTime recommended?

[Lance E Sloan]

Hello, all.  It's been quite some time since I've sent a message to the 
Python tutor list.

I would like to know if mxDateTime is still the recommended module to use 
for date calculations.  I've been using it for a few years with a set of 
CGIs I had written.  Should I continue to use that, or is there some other 
"preferred" module I should use?

I ask because recently the Webmasters have changed from a Solaris 
environment to a Linux one.  I recompiled the (very) old version of 
mxDateTime I have and it works, but through a process of elimination, I 
found that it is causing a segmentation fault as my program ends.  That is, 
it does all the date manipulation properly, but as the Python interpreter 
terminates (due to a sys.exit() call, implicit end of program, or an error) 
a segmentation fault happens.

I suspect that I could correct this by building a newer version of 
mxDateTime, but I just wanted to be sure that's what I should do before I 
spend the time on it.

Thanks in advance!

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Lance E Sloan, Systems Research Programmer III
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