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authorAlexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com>2010-07-23 19:25:47 (GMT)
committerAlexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com>2010-07-23 19:25:47 (GMT)
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Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the datetime module.
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+- Issue #7989: Added pure python implementation of the `datetime`
+ module. The C module is renamed to `_datetime` and if available,
+ overrides all classes defined in datetime with fast C impementation.
+ Python implementation is based on the original python prototype for
+ the datetime module by Tim Peters with minor modifications by the
+ PyPy project. The test suite now tests `datetime` module with and
+ without `_datetime` acceleration using the same test cases.
+
- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
- Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the