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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:01:11 -0500
Subject: Re: PyWarts: time, datetime, and calendar modules
To: Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> The interface for these modules is not intuitive. Instead of creating
> true OOP objects we have lists and strings. Any calendar object should
> expose string names of both: days of the week and months of the year.
> It seems one (or possibly more) of the three expose this important
> info however i cannot find it *easily* enough.
>
> It seems we need to combine the three in some shape or form. time and
> datetime would no doubt be great bedfellows. Or maybe datetime should
> be attached to time, like os.path. In any event the interfaces are
> horrendous.


What's "horrendous" about the datetime module interface? Your listed
complaints (OOP etc.) don't seem to have anything to do with it.

-- Devin