Re: Should ugettext_lazy return instanceof unicode? Or are reusable apps responsible for calling force_text a lot?

2016-10-24 Thread Mike Edmunds
Thanks for the helpful responses. A more-succinct statement of the underlying issue: - ugettext_lazy proxies len() and other methods of unicode, but not __class__. So isinstance(ugettext_lazy(), unicode) is False. - urlencode in the Python standard library liberally mixes

Re: Should we require pytz for timezone support in Django?

2016-10-24 Thread Tim Graham
I asked on django-users [0] if anyone is using settings.TIME_ZONE=None and didn't get any responses. Does it seem okay to drop that for now and react if we get any complaints about its removal? [0] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/CxAiS6PXs3U/discussion On Wednesday, October 12, 2

Re: Contributing to DJANGO

2016-10-24 Thread Tim Graham
Certainly. Take a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/. On Monday, October 24, 2016 at 12:34:36 PM UTC-4, Ravi Sharma wrote: > > Hello all, > Im Ravi Sharma, currently a 3rd year undergraduate student at IIT Bombay , > India > Im quite interested in working with

Contributing to DJANGO

2016-10-24 Thread Ravi Sharma
Hello all, Im Ravi Sharma, currently a 3rd year undergraduate student at IIT Bombay , India Im quite interested in working with open source software development, but im new in this field. I have worked with Django in previous so i thought this would be a better way to start with. So can i get to