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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:52:05 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 01/08/2014 05:27 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <laknps$umv$1@dont-email.me>,
>   Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't updated my Python apps to 3.x because there's nothing in 3.x
>> that offers benefits to my users.
>
> I almost found a reason to move to Python 3 today.  Then I got smacked.

[snip]

> Naive datetimes are what everybody uses.  It's what utcnow() gives you.
> So why make life difficult for everybody?  Python 3 didn't win a convert
> today.

Naive datetimes suffer from the same problem as the old str/unicode problems: as soon as you try to mix different 
timezone datetimes that are naive, you have a mess (temporal-bake, anyone?).

--
~Ethan~