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

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer at conectiva.com
Thu Mar 11 15:27:22 EST 2004

Hi Kevin,

+1000! I hadn't seen dateutil until today, but I think it is brilliant! Definitely fodder for the standard library.

Thanks! :-)

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Some initial suggestion:

1) relativedelta and maybe the tz module should be added to the datetime module.

I'm open to namespace changes during integration.

2) the tz module needs to be made Win32 aware -- at least minimally. It should also fail gracefully on systems that do not have /etc/localtime, /usr/share/zoneinfo, etc).

Indeed. Will appreciate suggestions from Windows users.

3) Some of the constants like FREQ* may be nicer without the FREQ prefix. I

Probably!

almost never use 'from x import *', so it seems unnecessary to protect the module namespace with prefixes (unless there is an existing collision that I do not see).

The fact that you don't use it doesn't mean everyone won't use it. :-)

4) Similarly, it would be useful to also support the long names for MO,TU,WE, etc.

These names come from the rrule RFC, and since you may provide a tuple of days, like (MO,TU,WE), to a given rule, they're pretty comfortable.

Thanks for the suggestions!

-- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net

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