On Oct 02, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >Reminder to everyone: the current state of the art for getting up to >date tz info for Python is "pip install pytz". > >If any proposal is more complicated than that, there's absolutely no >point in changing anything. The version I liked best so far is for >Python to just install a copy of pytz automatically (shipping it in >the installer rather than downloading it). OS packagers would then >take it out (replacing it with a dependency on a pytz emulator that >used the system database instead).
Why wouldn't the stdlib just ship with that emulator by default then? If your OS doesn't have a system database, then you `pip install pytz` ftw. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com