On 4/1/2012 9:16 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 21:20, Terry Reedy<tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
The Windows installer, by default, installs tcl/tk while Python on other
systems uses the system install. Why can't we do the same for the Olson
database?
The problem is that it needs updating.
We could include pytz, but it would be useless on Windows, unless you
also separately installs the Olson database. But including it and
updating it is not Python's job and should not be.
My main point is that I (as a Windows's user) do not think that
difficulties with Windows should stop inclusion of a useful module. On
import, pytz should check for database accessibility and raise an
exception if not, and possibly refer to manual section on how to make it
accessible.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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