datetime, calendar, time intervals

[NewToPython]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:07:52 -0400, "John Roth"
<newsgroups at jhrothjr.com> wrote:
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>"David Eppstein" <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote in message
>news:eppstein-ABCC82.23210816062004 at news.service.uci.edu...
>> In article <95aa1afa.0406162213.3cf3d7f7 at posting.google.com>,
>>  michele.simionato at poste.it (Michele Simionato) wrote:
>>
>> > Strangely enough, I never needed the datetime and calendar module
>> > before, so I just looked at them today.
>>
>> Me too.  datetime was exactly what I wanted.  Until I realized that it
>> wasn't available in the 2.2.3 installation I needed my code to run in...
>
>Yeah, that's a problem. I've been avoiding putting a date type adapter
>in the Python version of FIT for exactly that reason. Which brought up
>the question of whether it would be possible to back-port it, and I
>found that it was a C language module. Sigh.

Sorry, I am new to Python, but I have a requirement for date
manipulation in an app that will need to run in 2.2, so I am
interested in the data functions of the latest release as well.  When
you say that it was a C module, are you saying the library of date
functions in the latest version are written in C?  Does this somehow
stop us from back-porting it to 2.2 or 2.1 python?  I would be very
interested in seeing the C source code for the date routines, along
with the routine descriptions - where can I find that?

 - Chris

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>John Roth
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>> David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
>> Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science
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