[Python-Dev] dateutil

[Kevin Jacobs]

Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:

>Yes, it's time for the classical question. ;-)
>
>What's your opinion about the inclusion of the dateutil[1]
>extension in the standard library?
>
>[1] https://moin.conectiva.com.br/DateUtil
>  
>

Gustavo,

+1000!  I hadn't seen dateutil until today, but I think it is 
brilliant!  Definitely fodder for
the standard library.

The functionality is similar to a module that I wrote a few years back, 
though I didn't
model the advanced behavior after the iCalendar RFC.  Unfortunately, I 
have lost the
fight to open source most of my work from that era, so I am more than 
happy to
help review and assist in the effort to incorporate your excellent 
module into the
standard library.

Some initial suggestion:

  1) relativedelta and maybe the tz module should be added to the 
datetime module.

  2) the tz module needs to be made Win32 aware -- at least minimally.   
It should also
      fail gracefully on systems that do not have /etc/localtime, 
/usr/share/zoneinfo, etc).

  3) Some of the constants like FREQ_* may be nicer without the FREQ_ 
prefix.  I
      almost never use 'from x import *', so it seems unnecessary to 
protect the module
      namespace with prefixes (unless there is an existing collision 
that I do not see).

  4) Similarly, it would be useful to also support the long names for 
MO,TU,WE, etc.

I'm happy to supply patches as well.

Best regards,
-Kevin Jacobs

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