Another issue to consider here is that parsing and printing should be symmetrical. The %f format gobbles up exactly 6 digits.
Finally, strptime and strftime are not invented by Python, the same functions with (mostly) the same format characters are defined by other languages. Is there not a single other language that has added support for nanoseconds to its strftime/strptime? (I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't -- while computer clocks have a precision in nanoseconds, that doesn't mean they are that *accurate* at all (even with ntpd running). On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Matthieu Bec <mdcb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ...or keep using "%f" if acceptable... > > That might be a problem. While it will probably work most of the time, > there are likely to be situations where the caller assumes it > generates a six-digit string. I did a little poking around. It seems > like "%N" isn't used. > > Skip > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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