[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic time type to the standard library (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 8 Feb 2002 16:07:04 -0500

Guido van Rossum writes:

In that case, I take back everything I've said about Jim Fulton's requirements. I'm quite sure that in the past he said he needed a very lightweight date/time object, but from what you say it appears this need has disappeared.

He wanted this for the catalog, and I suspect he still does. Both size and performance (of comparisons) were important, not rendering time.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation