Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed4.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:language': 0.09; 'message-id:@4ax.com': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sorts': 0.16; 'subject:?)': 0.16; 'subject:unicode': 0.16; 'year,': 0.18; 'properly': 0.19; 'url:home': 0.24; 'least': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'chris': 0.29; 'commonly': 0.31; 'could': 0.34; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'received:76': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'mar': 0.68; 'subject:this': 0.83 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:05:20 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-249-24-221.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 12 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1395792605 news.xs4all.nl 2900 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34231 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:69085 On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:19:10 +1100, Chris Angelico declaimed the following: >contexts.) Of them, y/m/d is both the clearest and the least commonly >used; with a four-digit year, there's no way it could be confused for >anything else. > It also sorts properly -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/