[Python-Dev] dateutil (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer at conectiva.com
Thu Mar 11 09:33:39 EST 2004

In this context, PEP 321 and the discussion about it are relevant:

http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0321.html http://groups.google.nl/groups?threadm=ad6u7j09.fsf%40yahoo.co.uk

Indeed. I've followed it at the time it happened. Do you see anything which should be considered before including dateutil in the standard library?

I am in favour of including something like DatuUtil in the standard library. I need it often enough, e.g., to find out out when two weeks after 24 Feb is is easier with DateUtil than with datetime, and I think datetime lacks a strptime. IMO it should be possible to do all date/time arithmetic without the time module; I don't like the time module.

I don't think the dateutil functionality is provided by the time module at all.

My 20 milli-euro's ;-)

Thanks! :_)

P.S. "cal 9 1752" would also be nice to have in Python ;-)

print calendar.month(1972, 9) September 1972 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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