Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > 2) Allow divmod, the operator '%', to be applied to two timedeltas (e.g. > td1 % td2). I think there is some debate here about whether the return > value be an integer in microsends, or a timedelta. I personally believe > that a timedelta should be returned, representing the amount of time > remaining after (td1 // td2) * td2 has been subtracted. > > The alternative is an integer, but due to a lack of immediate clarity > over what time quanta this integer represents, I would suggest returning > a unit amount. There is also some discussion of returning (long, > timedelta), but I personally fail to see the merits of returning the > long without some unit attached. > I don't think this alternative was ever seriously considered and no patch was ever proposed to do it that way. Victor's latest patch implements divmod(timedelta, timedelta) -> (int, timedelta) and therefore timedelta % timedelta -> timedelta. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2706> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
