On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > I think I will just state my reasoning one last time and then leave it to the > BDFL or BDFOP to make the final decision. > > Victor on IRC says that there is not much difference between Decimal and > timedelta, and this may be true from an implementation point of view. >From a > cognitive point of view, I think they're miles apart. Ultimately, I wish ints > and floats weren't used for time-y things, and only datetimes (for values with > well-defined starting points, including the epoch) and timedeltas (for values > with no starting point) were used. > > We obviously can't eliminate the APIs that return and accept ints and floats, > most of which we inherited from C, but we can avoid making it worse by > extended them to also accept Decimals. I think it would be valuable work to > correct any deficiencies in datetimes and timedeltas so that they can be used > in all time-y APIs, with whatever resolution is necessary. > > My primary concern with the PEP is adding to users confusion when they have to > handle (at least) 5 different types[*] that represent time in Python.
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