[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[Lennart Regebro]

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