One of my roles on this newsgroup is to periodically whine about stupidities in the Python datetime module. This is one of those times.
I have some code which computes how long ago the sun set. Being a nice pythonista, I'm using a timedelta to represent this value. It would be difficult to imagine a less useful default way to print a timedelta: previous sunset: -1 day, 22:25:26.295993 The idea of str() is that it's supposed to return a human-friendly representation of a value. Humans do not say things like, "The sun set 1 day ago plus 22 hours and 25 minutes". -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
