[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support. (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Dec 12 03:54:21 CET 2012

On Dec 11, 2012, at 03:48 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

I agree. Also, in corporate or similar environments where each individual package installation must be approved, having at least some timezone data in the base install ensures that all Python code can assume the existence of timezone support (if not necessarily the accuracy of that data).

One other thing that the PEP should describe is what happens on a distro that has timezone data, but which you also pip install the PyPI tzdata package. Which one wins? Is there a way to control it, other than providing an explicit path? Is there a way to uninstall the PyPI package? Does the API need to provide a method which tells you where the database it is using by default lives?

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