Bug#892283: RFP: python-pendulum -- Python datetimes made easy

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : python-pendulum
  Version         : 1.4.2
  Upstream Author : Sébastien Eustace <sebastien@eustace.io>
* URL             : https://pendulum.eustace.io/
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Python datetimes made easy

Native datetime instances are enough for basic cases but when you face more
complex use-cases they often show limitations and are not so intuitive to work
with.
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Pendulum provides a cleaner and easier to use API while still relying on the
standard library. So it's still datetime but better.
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Unlike other datetime libraries for Python, Pendulum is a drop-in replacement
for the standard datetime class (it inherits from it), so, basically, you can
replace all your datetime instances by Pendulum instances in you code
(exceptions exist for libraries that check the type of the objects by using
the type function like sqlite3 or PyMySQL for instance).
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It also removes the notion of naive datetimes: each Pendulum instance is
timezone-aware and by default in UTC for ease of use.
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Pendulum also improves timedelta by providing more intuitive methods and
properties. See the documentation for more information.