[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic time type to the standard library (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 08 Feb 2002 16:22:24 -0500

Guido van Rossum writes: > In that case, I take back everything I've said about Jim Fulton's > requirements. I'm quite sure that in the past he said he needed a > very lightweight date/time object, but from what you say it appears > this need has disappeared.

He wanted this for the catalog, and I suspect he still does. Both size and performance (of comparisons) were important, not rendering time.

Is comparison the same what Tim mentioned as range searches? I guess a representation like current Zope timestamps or what time.time() returns is fine for that -- it is monononous even if not necessarily continuous. I guess a broken-out time tuple is much harder to compare.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)