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Author eric.araujo
Recipients amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, eric.araujo, eric.smith, flox, gvanrossum, loewis, schmir, vstinner
Date 2011-11-02.17:11:24
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> Maybe rather than spending the effort maintaining a legacy API such as strftime, someone could
> look into implementing localized date formatting as defined by recent Unicode standards:
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Date_Format_Patterns

This scheme is very elegant.  I’d love to have built-in/stdlib support for it.  Would it need to be implemented in C?

> Apparently there is a free implementation for Python out there:
> http://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/dates.html#pattern-syntax

Babel just rocks :)
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2011-11-02 17:11:25eric.araujosetrecipients: + eric.araujo, gvanrossum, loewis, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, vstinner, eric.smith, schmir, flox
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