[Python-Dev] datetime issues (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Tue Sep 16 03:40:59 EDT 2003

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

Also, is there any further work going on to improve the datetime module? I'm not suggesting we should mirror mx.DateTime functionalities, but two features I miss from mx.DateTime is the DateFrom(), which does its best to parse a given string, and the RelativeDateTime() functionality.

This has probably been raised in the past, so if that's the case, I'm sorry. Marc-Andre, what's your opinion about reusing code from mx.DateTime into datetime?

The mxDateTime code comes under the eGenix Public License, so reuse is permittted under the terms of the license. That said, I doubt that you want to maintain a date/time parser in the Python core -- I certainly don't :-)

Anyway, reusing code or not, I'll probably put sometime on it in the future, if this looks interesting to everyone (after I finish my current python pendencies, like SRE's recursivity removal).

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