[Python-ideas] Rename time module to "posixtime"

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Jun 16 11:59:20 CEST 2010


Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:03:06 -0700
> Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with this sentiment. The UNIX timestamp stuff should stay in
>> time, the time tuple stuff should just go, and datetime should be
>> fleshed out to handle all the stuff that is not a direct wrapping
>> around libc. That way people deal with accurate datetimes as well as
>> well understood concepts with UNIX timestamps and datetime objects.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> What? We all agree?

I don't :-)

We've done the stdlib reorg already, now it's time to focus on
improving what's there, not removing things.

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