Hi Glenn, thanks for looking into this. At first glance, it looks like it basically allows date arithmetic. I was planning to incorporate Gustavo Niemeyer's relativedelta.py for this purpose. My date library adds business-day / holiday calculations.
Does anyone have a strong preference between relativedelta.py and mxDateTime? On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:03 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:23 PM, ghtdak <gl...@tarbox.org> wrote: > > > > Python pretty much punted on date and time. It has some support, but > > its not very good. > > > > The Python Quick Reference: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR25/PQR2.5.html > > > > suggests mxDateTime: > http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxDateTime/ > > > > and, having worked with it, I recommend it over what comes native with > > Python. My guess is this is why Python hasn't bothered. > > > > A quick glance through the license doesn't show anything obviously > > problematic. Seems to be the Python license but I don't know if that > > makes sense... > > > > My proposal is to add something for date and time handling. Looks > > like mx might be the right approach. > > > > Questions? Comments? Jokes? > > > > -glenn > > I know that Phaedon Sinis's new package for quantitative finance in > Sage, which he intends to submit within about 2 weeks, has lots of > more sophisticated date/time handling than what is builtin to Python, > at least stuff motivated by finance. I'm guessing you're also > interested in datetime functionality motivated by finance. So > Phaedon, care to make any remarks? > > William > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
