[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:18:10 +0530, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Reminder to everyone: the current state of the art for getting up to
> date tz info for Python is "pip install pytz".
> 
> If any proposal is more complicated than that, there's absolutely no
> point in changing anything. The version I liked best so far is for
> Python to just install a copy of pytz automatically (shipping it in
> the installer rather than downloading it). OS packagers would then
> take it out (replacing it with a dependency on a pytz emulator that
> used the system database instead).

Emulator?  That makes no sense, I'm afraid.

I think we are talking here about incorporating pytz into the
stdlib.  The only question is how to manage the Olson database
on Windows, which has *always* been the question.

--David