On Mar 19, 9:12 am, "Nicholas F. Fabry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a query for information as to how to proceed. I am not a > professional programmer, but I use Python a great deal to help me in > my main job, which involves designing schedules for a global airline. > As such, I use datetime (and dateutil) extensively, and after much > use, I have come to some conclusions about their utility, and how to > improve them. Some of these changes are quite minor and would result > in a large increase in utility (low hanging fruit), while some changes > are major, and would result in less obvious benefits - but these > changes would increase the 'Python Zen' of them. > > So - where should I propose these changes? Here? python-dev? Should > I write up a full PEP or should I just give a more informal outline > with code samples? I would volunteer to help maintain/improve > datetime, but I don't speak C at all, unfortunately, and datetime > appears to be in C. > > In addition, I have little contact with the Python community - I work > somewhat 'solo' when it comes to my programming projects. So, are > there other people out there who use datetime? Dateutil? What do you > find the deficits/benefits of these modules to be? > > Thank you for your thoughts.... > > Nick Fabry
I think you need to do this sort of thing on python-dev. I'm not sure how the PEP process works though. If you give your thoughts in a PEP- like format, you'd probably be taken more seriously though. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
