anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> added the comment:

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:52 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
<rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> I am still -1 on adding specialized formatting methods to the datetime class. 
>  I think this should be done in specialized modules.

No problem - add "formats" module and I'll be happy.

>On the other hand, datetime module should provide facilities to easily 
>implement such methods and there does not seem to be a good solution for 
>implementing locale independent formats.  I would like to consider the idea of 
>adding datetime.cstrftime() which provides formatting equivalent to 
>datetime.strftime() in "C" locale.  Another feature that will be needed to 
>implement rfcformat, would be a GNU date style "%:z" code.

If there is no best solution then the best out worse solutions is much
much better - provided that an appropriate explanation is available
for the users.

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