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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:50:19 +0000
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On 16/12/2011 10:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[ on time.struct_time ]

> Not a bug, but it does seem a very old and inelegant API more suited to
> hairy C programmers gathered around a smokey fire in a cave chewing on
> old dinosaur bones, and not worthy of space-age Python coders flying
> around on anti-gravity belts.

+1 QOTW

TJG