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

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Jan 7 19:06:35 CET 2013


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The module could be split into several modules in a package without
>> affecting the public API if that would help with maintenance, simular to
>> unittest.
>
>
> Is there popular support for doing so, ie make datetime into a package, have
> all of the pytz modules in there, but letting the public API go only through
> datetime, ie no timezone submodule?
>
> If the list decides so, I'll update the PEP.

+1 for putting this under datetime; "Namespaces are one honking great
idea". People looking for date stuff is going to look in datetime or
time first so might as well put it there to begin with.


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