Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > The advantage of an obscure one-liner is > that it is obvious what it does, particularly for someone with a > C/UNIX background.
Well, I would argue that the C/Unix legacy in terms of dates and times isn't an example to follow. Python does not force you to use strcat() to concatenate strings, either ;) But besides, the issue is more how people are supposed to invent that one-liner, let alone remember it easily. Perhaps adding it in the documentation would be a good middle ground, if you think it shouldn't be added to the stdlib. > Do you have other examples of this sort? Well, for example, the datetime module encourages you to use "aware" datetime objects (rather than so-called "naive" objects), but there isn't a single facility to do so. You must reinvent a whole timezone class from scratch. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2736> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
