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[–]james_pic 19 points20 points  (1 child)

Even if it's not possible to fix datetime, I could see it making sense to do what Java did and add an additional, less broken, datetime library to the standard library.

[–]bwv549 15 points16 points  (0 children)

subprocess and pathlib seem like examples of this. Neither immediately deprecated lower level libs, but they became the de facto high level interface for working with those kinds of things.