>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Chaplin <ste...@ya...> writes:
Steve> Out of these timezones in dates.py UTC = timezone('UTC')
Steve> Eastern = timezone('US/Eastern') Central =
Steve> timezone('US/Central') Mountain = timezone('US/Mountain')
Steve> Pacific = timezone('US/Pacific') London =
Steve> timezone('Europe/London') Paris = timezone('Europe/Paris')
Steve> Berlin = timezone('Europe/Berlin') Moscow =
Steve> timezone('Europe/Moscow')
Steve> As far as I can see the only timezones actually used are
Steve> UTC - as a function default value, and Pacific - used in
Steve> __main__ Is it OK to remove all the unused ones, or is
Steve> there something that relies on them?
Well, I provided these for convenience for people to import from the
dates module. It never occurred to me that simply instantiating 7
objects would carry such a performance hit. However, it doesn't
appear that I documented this anywhere, so it should be safe to remove
them - just make a note in the API_CHANGES file that they are gone and
I'll mention it in the release notes.
JDH