Timezone definition has disappeared for 'Europe/Copenhagen'

[peterdv]

Binary package hint: python-tz

Timezone definition has recently disappeared for 'Europe/Copenhagen', this may be related to Bug #41159 - so perhaps this bug should have been filed on tzdata ?

>>> import pytz
>>> pytz.all_timezones.index('Europe/Copenhagen')
399
>>> pytz.timezone('Europe/Copenhagen')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 93, in timezone
    _tzinfo_cache[zone] = build_tzinfo(zone, open_resource(zone))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 41, in open_resource
    return resource_stream(__name__, 'zoneinfo/' + name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 806, in resource_stream
    self, resource_name
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1162, in get_resource_stream
    return open(self._fn(self.module_path, resource_name), 'rb')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz/zoneinfo/Europe/Copenhagen'
>>>

[peterdv (peter-dahl-vestergaard)]

Sorry, I forgot to tell:
ii python-tz 2007c-0ubuntu1 Python version of the Olson timezone databas
ii tzdata 2007b-0ubuntu1 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data

tzdata appears to be the newest awailable (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata):
2007-02-15 23:03:14 UTC Published feisty Release main libs 2007b-0ubuntu1

[peterdv (peter-dahl-vestergaard)]

Crude, irresponsible workaround:

sudo mv /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz/zoneinfo /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz/zoneinfo.orig
sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pytz/zoneinfo

results in the expected response:

Python 2.5 (release25-maint, Mar 15 2007, 10:53:31)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import pytz
>>> pytz.all_timezones.index('Europe/Copenhagen')
399
>>> pytz.timezone('Europe/Copenhagen')
<DstTzInfo 'Europe/Copenhagen' CET+1:00:00 STD>
>>>

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

This affects all timezones, not just Europe/Copenhagen. pytz doesn't know it's now supposed to look in /usr/share/zoneinfo and instead tries to look inside /usr/lib/python2.{4,5}/site-packages/pytz/zoneinfo, which is an empty directory.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed with the new version in gutsy