STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > 1. Datetime.py time source (time.time()) represents time as > a floating point number which leads to system dependent behavior > and introduces floating point operations where they are not needed.
Why not introducing a new function in time module? Other people may benefit from this. > 3. The datetime module could benefit from access to tm_zone > and tm_gmtoff components of the tm structure, but introducing > those in the output of time.localtime() would require either > hidden member hackery or loss of backwards compatibility. > See issues #1647654, #7662, and #9527. Why not creating a new function giving access to all tm attributes? Eg. time.localtime_gmaware()? > 4. No changes will be done to timemodule.c other than renaming What about time_strftime()? It is 170 lines long: will it be moved to _basictime.c? You have to keep the code filling the "struct tm" structure in (_)timemodule.c. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9528> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
