[Python-Dev] Stdlib and timezones, again

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:59:03 +0200, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:02 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It wouldn't emulate anything, though. Ubuntu already does this, they
> ship a version of pytz that includes no database, and just point it to
> /usr/share/zoneinfo instead.

That's what I meant.  It's not an emulator.

--David