[Python-Dev] xmlrpclib and dates before 1900 (original) (raw)

Ralf Schmitt schmir at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 09:29:57 CEST 2008

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:36 AM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

It's actually not xmlrpclib which has the limitation, but datetime.strftime(). That's a known limitation. Here's the comment in the datetime code: [snip] Personally, I don't think patching xmlrpclib is the right place to "fix" this problem. It's possible that the datetime comment is no longer correct

yes, you're right. but I didn't feel like writing a strftime implementation (which has probably even less chance of being committed). This patch is rather tiny, it's easy to understand and it works now.

and that limitation should be reconsidered. I see no other mention of PYTHON2K in any .c, .h or .py files in the trunk.

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