* Add timezone to datetime C API
* Add documentation for timezone C API macros
* Add dedicated tests for datetime type check macros
* Remove superfluous C API test
* Drop support for TimeZoneType in datetime C API
* Expose UTC singleton to the datetime C API
* Update datetime C-API documentation to include links
* Add reference count information for timezone constructors
* Add tests for date subclass alternate constructors
* Switch over alternate date constructors to fast path
* Switch datetime constructors to fastpath, fix bpo-32404
* Add fast path for datetime in date subclass constructor
* Set fold in constructor in datetime.combine
* Add news entries.
Modify locale.localeconv(), time.tzname, os.strerror() and other
functions to ignore the UTF-8 Mode: always use the current locale
encoding.
Changes:
* Add _Py_DecodeLocaleEx() and _Py_EncodeLocaleEx(). On decoding or
encoding error, they return the position of the error and an error
message which are used to raise Unicode errors in
PyUnicode_DecodeLocale() and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale().
* Replace _Py_DecodeCurrentLocale() with _Py_DecodeLocaleEx().
* PyUnicode_DecodeLocale() now uses _Py_DecodeLocaleEx() for all
cases, especially for the strict error handler.
* Add _Py_DecodeUTF8Ex(): return more information on decoding error
and supports the strict error handler.
* Rename _Py_EncodeUTF8_surrogateescape() to _Py_EncodeUTF8Ex().
* Replace _Py_EncodeCurrentLocale() with _Py_EncodeLocaleEx().
* Ignore the UTF-8 mode to encode/decode localeconv(), strerror()
and time zone name.
* Remove PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() now ignore the UTF-8 mode: always use
the "current" locale.
* Remove _PyUnicode_DecodeCurrentLocale(),
_PyUnicode_DecodeCurrentLocaleAndSize() and
_PyUnicode_EncodeCurrentLocale().
* Add Py_UNREACHABLE() as an alias to abort().
* Use Py_UNREACHABLE() instead of assert(0)
* Convert more unreachable code to use Py_UNREACHABLE()
* Document Py_UNREACHABLE() and a few other macros.
* Closes issue bpo-5288: Allow tzinfo objects with sub-minute offsets.
* bpo-5288: Implemented %z formatting of sub-minute offsets.
* bpo-5288: Removed mentions of the whole minute limitation on TZ offsets.
* bpo-5288: Removed one more mention of the whole minute limitation.
Thanks @csabella!
* Fix a formatting error in the docs
* Addressed review comments.
Thanks, @haypo.
Fix time_hash() function: replace DATE_xxx() macros with TIME_xxx() macros.
Before, the hash function used a wrong value for microseconds if fold is set
(equal to 1).
Issue #28915: Replace _PyObject_CallMethodId() with
_PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs() when the format string was only made of "O"
formats, PyObject* arguments.
_PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs() avoids the creation of a temporary tuple and
doesn't have to parse a format string.
Issue #28915: Avoid calling _PyObject_CallMethodId() with "(...)" format to
avoid the creation of a temporary tuple: use Py_BuildValue() with
_PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs().
Don't pass "()" format to PyObject_CallXXX() to call a function without
argument: pass NULL as the format string instead. It avoids to have to parse a
string to produce 0 argument.
Added an optional argument timespec to the datetime isoformat() method
to choose the precision of the time component.
Original patch by Alessandro Cucci.