[Python-ideas] Pythonic Dates, Times, and Deltas (original) (raw)

Nathan Schneider neatnate at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 00:01:42 CEST 2010

I'm glad to see there's interest in solving this (seems I'm not alone in seeing date/time support as the ugly stepchild of the Python standard library).

For what it's worth, not too long ago I ended up writing a bunch of convenience functions to instantiate and convert between existing date/time representations (datetime objects, time tuples, timestamps, and string representations). The result is here, in case anyone's interested:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nschneid/docs/temporal.py

Cheers, Nathan

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Daniel G. Taylor <dan at programmer-art.org> wrote:

On 10/13/2010 06:16 PM, Dag Odenhall wrote:

Not convinced your library is very Pythonic. Why a tuple attribute instead of having date objects be iterable so you can do tuple(Date())? How do you envision this working for days, weeks, months, years? E.g. getting the min/max Date objects for today, for next week, for this current month, etc. I'm very open to ideas here; I just implemented what made sense to me at the time. How does the fancy formats deal with locales? It internally uses datetime.strftime, so will behave however that behaves with regard to locales. Is there support for ISO 8601? Should probably be the str. Not built-in other than supporting a strftime method. This is a good idea and I will probably add it. +1 on the general idea, though. Thanks :-) Take care, -- Daniel G. Taylor http://programmer-art.org/

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