> 1) Yes I agree, your solution is somewhat more concise, I have corrected
> the code accordingly.
> 2) I get errors for all my test when I build "my" python and run
> "./python.exe -m test.datetimetester -j3"
>     I asume this is because I have yet to implement the c version in
> Modules/_datetimemodule.c
>     is this the correct assumption?

You should probably run "./python.exe -m test -v test_datetime" instead.
Not sure that will fix your test failures, though :)