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Add datetime.UTC alias for datetime.timezone.utc #91928
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I tracked down the decision between
datetime.timezone.utcanddatetime.UTCto this conversation primarily between @abalkin and @brettcannon. It was definitely a deliberate decision to usetimezone.utc, but it doesn't seem like there were especially strong feelings about this.One counter-example to the "
datetimeseems to put its attributes in class namespaces" is thatMINYEARandMAXYEARare global module-level constants. I am mostly convinced that we should go forward with this, particularly since a contributor has already written an excellent PR (#91973) implementing it. Any objections from @brettcannon or @abalkin?Reacted by ajoino and Kabir KwatraDefinitely no objections from me. 🙂
Reacted by Paul Ganssle, Kabir Kwatra and Collins Oden- added a commit that references this issue
on May 3, 2022
Feature or enhancement
Right now, the UTC singleton is only available as a class-level attribute on
datetime.timezone, but I think a lot of people would probably like to be able to do this:Since
datetime.timezoneis a class, not a module, right now it is necessary for each person to define their ownUTCalias (if they want such a thing) in two lines:This isn't a huge deal, but I think it would be pretty unambiguous what it refers to and might be a nice quality of life improvement.
CC: @abalkin