[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements (original) (raw)

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Sun Dec 30 08:03:16 CET 2012


On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 12/29/2012 3:16 PM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

Yes, but a comprehensible error message is useful even if somebody messed up the system/configuration.

Just reuse whatever exception type you create and add a sensible message. Hopefully, it will never be seen.

I haven't implemented this, but I suspect the code will in the end look for the tzdata module, which means that if it doesn't exist, the error raised is an ImportError.

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