[Python-Dev] PEP: New timestamp formats (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 14🔞55 CET 2012

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:

Even if I like the idea, I don't think that we need all this machinery to support nanosecond resolution. I should maybe forget my idea of using datetime.datetime or datetime.timedelta, or only only support int, float and decimal.Decimal. I updated my patch (issue #13882) to only support int, float and decimal.Decimal types. I suppose that it is just enough. Only adding decimal.Decimal type avoids many questions:  - which API / protocol should be used to support other types  - what is the start of a timestamp?  - etc. As we seen: using time.time(timestamp=type) API, it will be easy to support new types later (using a new protocol, a registry like Unicode codecs, or anything else).

Yeah, I can definitely live with the type-based API if we restrict it to those 3 types.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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