[Python-Dev] PEP 431 Time zone support improvements - Update

[Lennart Regebro]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com>wrote:
>
>> - -Lots for enabling fallback by default except on platforms known not to
>> have their own database
>
>
> Well, it's the same thing really. If the platform does have a database,
> the fallback will not be used.
> Of course, there is the case of the database existing on the platform
> normally, but somebody for some reason deleting the files, but I don't
> think that case deserves an error message.
>
> I also expect that most platform distributions, such as for Ubuntu, will
> not include the fallback database, as it will never be used. I'll add
> something about that and that we need to raise an error of some sort (any
> opinions on what?) if no database is found at all.
>

Actually I already added that, but opinions on what error to raise are
still welcome. Currently it says:

    If no database is found an ``UnknownTimeZoneError`` or subclass thereof
will
    be raised with a message explaining that no zoneinfo database can be
found,
    but that you can install one with the ``tzdata-update`` package.
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