the Gravity of Python 2

[Ethan Furman]

On 01/09/2014 12:42 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 01:27, Roy Smith wrote:
>>
>> Naive datetimes are what everybody uses.  It's what utcnow() gives you.
>> So why make life difficult for everybody?  Python 3 didn't win a convert
>> today.
>
> Yep, dates and times are easy.  That's why there are 17 issues open on the bug tracker referencing tzinfo alone.  Poor
> old 1100942 is high priority, was created 12/01/2005 and has missed 3.4.  So if it gets into 3.5 it'll have already
> celebrated its 10th birthday.  It doesn't say much for the amount of effort that we put into looking after issues.

Mark, I hope you are addressing the community at large and not the core-devs.  There are only so many of us, with 
limited time available.

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~Ethan~