[Python-Dev] dateutil (original) (raw)

Gustavo Niemeyer niemeyer at conectiva.com
Thu Mar 11 16:51:03 EST 2004

That's not what I was asking.

Oops.. sorry then.

I realize that generating the recurrences themselves is important, but it's not the only important thing. Getting from the English (or Portuguese ;-) that a user would use as input is just as important to me as having the recurrence classes available to generate a stream of dates. For example, this does work using recur: [...] The point is, the Recurrence class in the recur module seems to have some hooks builtin for this sort of stuff, but it's not been fleshed out very well. A PEP with some sample implementations might go a long way to making a more complete implementation available. The documentation seems to be missing that would help me add it. I think there is technology there which doesn't exist in dateutil. Correct me if I'm wrong.

No, it doesn't implement any english specific statement parsing, and I confess I don't have it in my current todo list. If you belive that dateutil is not worth for the standard library without an english recurrence parsing, I respect your opinion. I'll maintain it as an extension in my own site then.

Perhaps recur.Recurrence just needs a little more work so it can handle some common timekeeping phraseology: [...]

Yeah.. this module might be better indeed.

I'll restate my suggestion that maybe a PEP for this stuff would be a good idea. I think it would be a reasonable idea to check both recur and dateutil into the nondist/sandbox so other people can take a whack at them.

Not needed. dateutil is already released, and being used in real world applications. You may get it at the following URL if you want it:

https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil

Thanks for discussing!

-- Gustavo Niemeyer http://niemeyer.net

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