[issue25428] Have `datetime` understand integer arguments for timezones

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[issue25428] Have `datetime` understand integer arguments for timezones

New submission from leewz: Current: If I want to create a datetime object with a particular timezone offset, I have to do this: import datetime mytime = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 16, 9, 13, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(hours=-7))) Or with imports: from

[issue25428] Have `datetime` understand integer arguments for timezones

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[issue25428] Have `datetime` understand integer arguments for timezones

R. David Murray added the comment: timezone is relatively new. Work is in progress to add better timezone support to datetime, but it is a complicated subject and may or may not make it into 3.6. In any case I think it is too soon to talk about this kind of API change, before the other work