[Python-Dev] functions exposed by datetime (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:51:34 -0500

The more I read about "datetime", I am beginning to realize that like "mxDateTime", it is a needlessly awkward to use for people who want to cheaply turn a calendar date into a 32 bit integer, and back again.

Is the following really too awkward?

from datetime import * a = date.today() b = date(1956, 1, 31) a-b datetime.timedelta(17151) (a-b).days 17151

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