datetime and strptime

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:09:31 GMT, 
	Robin Munn <rmunn at pobox.com> wrote:
> I see that PEP targets Python 2.4. If the PEP is accepted and
> implemented, I for one would love to see the implementation back-ported
> to a 2.3.x patch release. This is something I also (briefly) considered

The rule for patch releases is "no new features, only bugfixes", so it would
be very difficult to bend the rules for this one method.  If the
implementation is just a Python module, though, it would be possible for
someone to package the module for use with 2.3.

--amk