Re: [Twisted-web] WebDAV branch merge

James Y Knight foom at fuhm.net
Tue Dec 20 11:10:53 MST 2005


On Dec 20, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote:

>   - I use datetime in XML processing, which is apparently a Python  
> 2.3+ feature.  It would be unfortunate to have to avoid datetime,  
> though, since it would mean adding the relevant code to twisted  
> somewhere.
>
>   The datetime issue we can either wave off by saying you need 2.3  
> to use dav, or we go ahead and copy in a bunch of code.  I'd prefer  
> to do that after merging if we think it's necessary to do so.  I  
> vote for requiring 2.3, but maybe that's my inner laziness talking.

If 2.2 support is required, I would suggest taking the datetime.py  
module from pypy (from Python, was translated to C, and then the C  
implementation was modified slightly. Then PyPy imported it from  
Python and modified to match the C impl).

Or 2.2 could just be dropped.

James


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