Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
Roundup bug bites again. Reposting via web: ----- On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Brett Cannon <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > The singleton dislike from Antoine and me is that they are generally just not > liked in the stdlib. .. Thanks for the explanation. I realize that I should not have used the s-word. :-) In fact I only wanted a module level constant utc = UTC() and did not care much about other UTC class instances and whether any are permitted or easy to create. > .. so we need to go with what we consider best practice for Python since it > will lead to much more use than pytz gets. > Well, the datetime module is not exactly the place you want to start if you want to lead anyone to best Python practices. :-) (Just think of datetime subclassing from date!) > Now if a simple FixedOffsetTimeZone class was added and we just pre-populated > the datetime module with a utc attribute that contained an > instance of that class set to the proper values for UTC, that I could support > without controversy. This is exactly my preferred solution. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5094> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
