[Python-Dev] Draft PEP for time zone support. (original) (raw)
Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 05:40:54 CET 2012
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>wrote:
The PEP says:
* New function :
timezone(name=None, dbpath=None)This function takes a name string that must be a string specifying a valid zoneinfo timezone, ie "US/Eastern", "Europe/Warsaw" or "Etc/GMT+11". It isn't 100% clear to me from the PEP what a valid name string would be, but I assume that it will accept anything that the time.tzset function will accept:
No, valid names are the names of time zones in the zoneinfo database. There isn't really any usecase for defining up your own rules as that would mean that you want a time zone that doesn't exist, which seems a bit pointless. :-)
(We have KeyError rather than UnknownKeyError, NameError rather than
UnknownNameError, etc.)
Sure, but what would otherwise a KeyError be unless an unkown or non-existing key?
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