[Python-Dev] Issue5434: datetime.monthdelta (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Apr 17 22:49:28 CEST 2009

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009, BJ?rn Lindqvist wrote:

It's not only about what people find intuitive. Why care about them? Most persons aren't programmers. It is about what application developers find useful too. I have often needed to calculate month deltas according to the proposal. I suspect many other programmers have too. Writing a month add function isn't entirely trivial and would be a good candidate for stdlib imho.

At this point, further discussion really needs to move to python-ideas; for acceptance in stdlib, there needs to be either well-accepted code out in the community or a PEP for Guido to pronounce on (or probably both, in the end).

I've set followups to python-ideas for convenience.

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