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Pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (2018)
An explanation of the differences between dateutil and pytz's time zone models and why people tend to misuse pytz and introduce bugs into their datetime code.
Paul Ganssle
Starting in Python 3, naïve datetimes stopped being considered "unitless" datetimes and started representing...
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Stop using utcnow and utcfromtimestamp
A public service announcement about the dangers of utcnow and utcfromtimestamp and the benefits of using their replacements.
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You shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
The setup.py interface is an old convention from distutils, one that has bugs that cannot be fixed to bring it into line with modern Python packaging approaches. As a result, all direct...