STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: Why do you need a pure Python version of datetime: - it's easier to work on a new feature first in Python: there are more people are able to write Python code, than people able to write C code (especially C code using the Python C API) - it helps datetime debuging - it helps other Python implementations (not only PyPy) - it improves the quality of the tests and so of the C version
I think that the first point is the most important, but datetime still lack many feature and is far from being perfect. I don't think that the pure Python implementation should be used by default: the current C implementation should stay because it's faster and many people use it. I don't know the best name for the Python version, maybe pydatetime.py (or _pydatetime.py). -- Questions: - @Alexander: did you contacted people from IronPython and Jython? - Is the Python version compatible with the C version about the serialization (pickle)? -- r.david.murray> there may be more important stuff to python You cannot force other developer to work on a specific topic since Python is only developed by hackers in their free time. If Alexander would like to work on this, he have to do it :-) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
