On 4 June 2018 at 09:44, Pål Grønås Drange <paal.dra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Speaking for myself, not for Paul, I guess my big objection would be >> that there would be too many collisions with other interpretations. >> Eg, does "5m" mean "5 minutes", "5 meters", or "the number 0.005"? Or >> perhaps "5 minutes of arc"? > > Just to clarify, the proposition was actually `5min`, and that it would > mean `datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)`.
... and the fact that it's easy to forget that it's 5min rather than 5m (is it 1h or 1hr, 2s or 2sec?) is a problem with the proposal. Of course there's a similar problem with timedelta(minutes=5) or timedelta(minute=5) (timedelta uses minutes, datetime uses minute, I had to look in the docs to check), so it's not unique to the literal notation, but it is an issue nevertheless. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
