Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment:

> The second is whether we should take this opportunity to fix datetime
> being a C extension module exclusively. I know PyPy has their own pure
> Python version of datetime that they plan to eventually contribute. We 
> might as well use this as the chance to create Lib/datetime.py and have 
> that conditionally import _datetimemodule.c (see the heapq module on 
> how to handle this kind of situation).

Of we could let PyPy contribute their own version when they want, after all.
I think additions to the datetime API are good in themselves, and we shouldn't 
make them depend on some mythical refactoring of the code into a separate pure 
Python module ;)

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