Nicholas F. Fabry schrieb: > This is a query for information as to how to proceed. I am not a > professional programmer, but I use Python a great deal to help me in > my main job, which involves designing schedules for a global airline. > As such, I use datetime (and dateutil) extensively, and after much > use, I have come to some conclusions about their utility, and how to > improve them. Some of these changes are quite minor and would result > in a large increase in utility (low hanging fruit), while some changes > are major, and would result in less obvious benefits - but these > changes would increase the 'Python Zen' of them. > > So - where should I propose these changes? Here? python-dev? Should > I write up a full PEP or should I just give a more informal outline > with code samples? I would volunteer to help maintain/improve > datetime, but I don't speak C at all, unfortunately, and datetime > appears to be in C.
Please write a detailed but not too long proposal to the Python ideas mailing list. The proposal should explain how you like to improve the datetime module. But *please* don't write a novel. You'll get more attention when the signal to noise ratio is high. A bullet list of features is easier to read than a long text block. I'm a core developer and I may be interested in mentoring your proposal. I can guide you through the process, review code and commit it. Yes, the datetime module is written in C. But we may move the C code to _datetime and create a facade module in Python. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
