[Python-Dev] dateutil

[Tim Peters]

[Gerrit]
>> I am in favour of including something like DatuUtil in the standard
>> library. I need it often enough, e.g., to find out out when two
>> weeks after 24 Feb is is easier with DateUtil than with datetime,
>> ...

[Brett]
> And if you want a poor man's way of finding the date a specific number
> of days past a date you can add those number of days to the day of the
> year value and then pass in the year and day of year into strptime and
> it will calculate the new date for you.  Roundabout, yes, but it
> works. =)  Obviously DateUtil is a much better way to handle this.

I'm not grasping the perceived difficulty with this specific use case:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date(2004, 2, 24) + datetime.timedelta(weeks=2)
datetime.date(2004, 3, 9)
>>>

I suppose it's possible that Gerrit finds "relativedelta" easier to type for
some reason <wink>.