[Zope-Coders] test failures in DateTime

[Guido van Rossum]

> Especially one thing pops into my mind right away. The DB-API 
> specifications for Python could finally agree to use mxDateTime for 
> handling Dates, Times, Epochs and Deltas. I think an advanced DateTime 
> module like this is long overdue in Python. Guido, any comments on that? :-)

It's long overdue, but mxDateTime is of such baffling complexity that
I'm not sure it belongs in the core.  It just doesn't feel Pythonic to
me.

> Well, actually mxDateTime is the suggested Module (just having checked the 
> specs). So I really think it is weird that it is not in the core yet, even 
> though that I agree that the "mx" prefix should not apear then. :-)
> 
> Mmmh, that adds a totally new dimension to the discussion. Is there
> any way we could discuss that with the other Python people?

We're all here.  Or you could subscribe to python-dev (now open to
all) and bring it up there -- MAL listens there too.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)