I can write at least a pure Python implementation in the next few days, if not a full C implementation. Shouldn't be too hard since I've got a few different Cython implementations sitting around anyway.
On November 29, 2017 7:06:58 PM EST, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
>wrote:
>>>>> indeed what is the holdup? I don't recall anyone saying it was a bad
>idea
>> in the last discussion.
>>>> Do we just need an implementation?
>>>> Is the one in the Bug Report not up to snuff? If not, then what's
>wrong
>> with it? This is just not that hard a problem to solve.
>>>>>See my comment from over a year ago: <
>https://bugs.python.org/issue15873#msg273609>. The proposed patch did
>not
>have a C implementation, but we can use the same approach as with
>strptime
>and call Python code from C. If users will start complaining about
>performance, we can speed it up in later releases. Also the new method
>needs to be documented. Overall, it does not seem to require more than
>an
>hour of work from a motivated developer, but the people who contributed
>to
>the issue in the past seem to have lost their interest.
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