Annoyed - Python 2.2.1 BUG in calendar module

[Skip Montanaro]

    Kaleb> PS: here is the traceback:

    >>>> import calendar
    >>>> calendar.monthcalendar(1969,12)
    Kaleb> Traceback (most recent call last):
    Kaleb>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    Kaleb>   File "c:\progra~1\python22\lib\calendar.py", line 122, in
    Kaleb> monthcalendar
    Kaleb>     day1, ndays = monthrange(year, month)
    Kaleb>   File "c:\progra~1\python22\lib\calendar.py", line 115, in monthrange
    Kaleb>     day1 = weekday(year, month, 1)
    Kaleb>   File "c:\progra~1\python22\lib\calendar.py", line 106, in weekday
    Kaleb>     secs = mktime((year, month, day, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
    Kaleb> OverflowError: mktime argument out of range

    Kaleb> The error is identical under Linux

Note that mktime comes from the time module.  The time module's docs say, in
part:

    There are two standard representations of time.  One is the number of
    seconds since the Epoch, in UTC (a.k.a. GMT).  It may be an integer or a
    floating point number (to represent fractions of seconds).  The Epoch is
    system-defined; on Unix, it is generally January 1st, 1970.  The actual
    value can be retrieved by calling gmtime(0).

    ...

    mktime() -- convert local time tuple to seconds since Epoch

Two suggestions before heading off to do your own thing:

    1. Fred Drake was working on a more capable date-time representation
       during the summer.  The code is in the SF sandbox:

	   http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/python/python/nondist/sandbox/datetime/

       You might also want to read his DateTimeWiki:

	   http://www.zope.org/Members/fdrake/DateTimeWiki/FrontPage

       before implementing something different.  

    2. Perhaps someone has created some calendar stuff based upon Marc-André
       Lemburg's mx.DateTime package (look here: <http://www.egenix.com/>).
       That is a very well wrung-out package and has a lot more
       functionality than Fred's stuff.

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