Newbie: Datetime, "Prog. in Win32", and how Python thinks

[Max Yaffe]

Dear Group,

First of all, thanks for all the postings about Datetime.  They've
helped alot.

I'm a newbie to Python (albeit very experienced in programming C & OO)
and trying to use "Programming in Win32"  by Hammond  & Robinson [H&R]
to learn it.  This may be a mistake since I think it refers to Python
1.5.2 while I'm trying to use Python 2.4.x.  Anyway...

1) H&R import a module "dates' which has been dropped.  They use
sec2asc which is also m.i.a.  I assume that the code should be adapted
to use module datetime.  Is that correct?

2) Is there any list of dead modules & names from previous revs?  Is
there any list of currently recommended modules?

3) I was able to import datetime & get a dir(datetime) to work.
Great.  But where is the actual code to datetime?  I can't find a
module named datetime.py in the library.  I grepped for datetime in
the library & found plenty of references to it but no module
definition.  Where is it defined?

4) How does the python interpreter resolve the statement "import
datatime"?

Thanks,
Max


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