[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Bugs-1707248 ] unguarded import for win32timezone

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Bugs item #1707248, was opened at 2007-04-25 11:37
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Category: installation
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Antoine LECA (antoinel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: unguarded import for win32timezone

Initial Comment:
PyWin32 build 210. Here comes the traceback:

PythonWin 2.2.3 (#42, May 30 2003, 18:12:08) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2006 Mark Hammond - see 'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>>> import win32timezone
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
  File "C:\Python22\Lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32timezone.py", line 78, in ?
    import os, _winreg, struct, datetime
ImportError: No module named datetime
>>> 

A quick search at google did not return useful hints on this particular one.

I am quite confident this bug only shows because of my version (which one I use because of dependency reasons); indeed, http://docs.python.org/lib/module-datetime.html says "New in version 2.3."

I spotted a possible replacement for datetime.py{d,c} on 2.2 on pythonweb.org, but this site is currently brocken (HTTP Status:403).


At any rate, since this module depends from a feature which is not included in Python 2.2, the 2.2 build of pywin32 should not include the win32timezone module. Alternatively, it could detect the import exception and displays some useful message (like "On Python 2.2, bring the datetime module from <http://some/tested/package>.") I am willingful to test here... as soon as I can put my hands on a suitable datetime.py* module!

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