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

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 21:02:52 CEST 2012

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

If any proposal is more complicated than that, there's absolutely no point in changing anything. The version I liked best so far is for Python to just install a copy of pytz automatically (shipping it in the installer rather than downloading it). OS packagers would then take it out (replacing it with a dependency on a pytz emulator that used the system database instead).

But that would then mean that when you install from source, as I typically do to avoid depending on Python, it would use another database than the OS version. I don't want that, i want Python on Unix to use the OS supplied database, unless another one is explicitly installed/configured.

//Lennart

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