[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again (original) (raw)

Dirkjan Ochtman dirkjan at ochtman.nl
Mon Oct 1 15:33:29 CEST 2012

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Since explicit is better than implicit, I wouldn't want to see magical side affects where merely installing the database from PyPI, or switching from Windows to Linux caused different behaviour.

I think that would be a pain. What you're proposing means that Linux installations have to use the Python-installed copy by default (because you want them to do the same thing as on Windows), even though they have a perfectly good copy, often newer, of the database installed on the system.

Cheers,

Dirkjan

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