On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > My key question to those advocating the use of timedelta instead of Decimal: > > What should timedelta.total_seconds() return to avoid losing > nanosecond precision? > How should this be requested when calling the API?
It should return a float as it does today. Add a timedelta.total_nanoseconds() call for people wanting high precision as a raw number and remind people of the precision limits of total_seconds() in the docs. -gps _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
