D extensions to python, inline in an ipython/jupyter notebook

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 3 July 2015 at 21:46:09 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Friday, 3 July 2015 at 15:56:24 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
>>> Aren't there time-zone concerns? Or is this just a mapping 
>>> between D's std.datetime.DateTime and python's 
>>> datetime.datetime with tzinfo==None, i.e. a naive date?
>>>
>>> Also, there would have to be some serious warning signs about 
>>> translating from python to D, in that the micro-seconds will 
>>> be truncated. Doesn't a lack of microseconds make it unusable 
>>> for tick data?
>>
>> https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/datetime.html
>>
>> The Python API has microseconds passed as an int in last 
>> argument.  You're right that I hadn't considered that D 
>> DateTime doesn't have fractions of a second (I think), so a 
>> SysTime would be better.
>>
>> On the other hand, I think datetime.datetime and numpy 
>> datetime64 are timezone-free.
>
> both datetime.datetime and numpy.datetime64 have timezone 
> support.


Great - in that case 2b makes sense.