On 29Mar2023 08:17, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
I am glad to hear that I am not alone :-) However, my use-case is fairly trivial, indeed less complicated than yours. So, in truth I don't really need a Period class. I just thought it might be a sufficiently generic itch that someone else with a more complicated use-case could have already scratched.
Well, my attitude to time spans is to get the start and end (or start and length, but I prefer the former) as UNIX timestamps and work from that. I try to stay as far from datetimes as possible, because of their foibles (particularly timezones, but really the whole calendar decomposition etc) and use them only for presentation.
I do in fact have a `TimePartition` in my timeseries module; it presently doesn't do comparisons because I'm not comparing them - I'm just using them as slices into the timeseries data on the whole.
https://github.com/cameron-simpson/css/blob/0ade6d191833b87cab8826d7ecaee4d114992c45/lib/python/cs/timeseries.py#L2163 But it would be easy to give that class `__lt__` etc methods. You're welcome to use it, or anything from the module (it's on PyPI). Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
