On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > Happy Holidays! Here is the update of PEP 431 with the changes that emerged > after the earlier discussion. > > A raw download is here: > https://raw.github.com/regebro/tz-pep/master/pep-04tz.txt
For UI purposes, "pytz" has some helpers to get lists of timezone names (all, common and country specific): http://pytz.sourceforge.net/#helpers Is there a specific reason you chose to exclude those from the PEP? > Discussion > ========== > > Should the windows installer include the data package? > ------------------------------------------------------ > > It has been suggested that the Windows installer should include the data > package. This would mean that an explicit installation no longer would be > needed on Windows. On the other hand, that would mean that many using > Windows > would not be aware that the database quickly becomes outdated and would not > keep it updated. I'm still a fan of *always* shipping fallback tzdata, regardless of platform. The stdlib would then look in three places for timezone data when datetime.timezone was first imported: 1. the "tzdata-update" database 2. the OS provided database 3. the fallback database Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
