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Such a protocol can easily be extended to any other type - the time
module could provide conversion functions for integers and float
objects (meaning results may have lower precision than the underlying
system calls), while the existing "fromtimestamp" APIs in datetime can
be updated to accept the new optional arguments (and perhaps an
appropriate class method added to timedelta, too). A class method
could also be added to the decimal module to construct instances from
integer components (as shown above), since that method of construction
isn't actually specific to timestamps.