>> I realize the %4N notation is distasteful, but without it I think you >> will have trouble parsing something like >> >> 13:02:00.704 >> >> What would be the format string? %H:%M:%S.%N would be incorrect.
Brett> Why is that incorrect? Because "704" represents the number of milliseconds, not the number of nanoseconds. I'm sure that in some applications people are interested in extremely short time scales. Writing out hours, minutes and seconds when all you are concerned with are small fractions of seconds (think high energy physics) would be a waste. In those situations log entries like 704 saw proton 705 proton hit neutron 706 saw electron headed toward Saturn might make perfect sense. Parsing the time field entirely within time.strptime would be at least clumsy if you couldn't tell it the scale of the numbers you're dealing with. Parsing with %N, %3N or %6N would give different values (nanoseconds, milliseconds or microseconds). Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com