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Add "Working with dates Section"

Open themiurgo opened this issue 11 years ago • 4 comments

There are plenty of libraries to choose from, when working with dates and times (python-dateutil, parsedatetime, arrow, ...)., and choosing one is not trivial. I was wondering if such a section might be useful in this book and where it should be placed. Perhaps "Scenario Guide > Date and time"?.

themiurgo avatar Aug 04 '14 09:08 themiurgo

It seems like a reasonable addition but I'm not sure if we want to discuss every relatively common topic for which there are many libraries for a new Pythonista to choose from. Sometimes it is helpful and sometimes it is too much information. @kennethreitz what do you think?

sigmavirus24 avatar Aug 04 '14 13:08 sigmavirus24

@sigmavirus24 @themiurgo Well, working with dates is a way too common task and one can easily learn about working with dates and timezone. Even python official docs includes a documentation for it. Since this is a standard library and provides many features so you can use it.

arpit1997 avatar Sep 30 '16 16:09 arpit1997

very helpful, if done correctly

kennethreitz avatar Oct 20 '16 14:10 kennethreitz

Has anyone undertaken this?

wxtim avatar Aug 02 '19 14:08 wxtim