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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Thu Feb 2 14:21:25 CET 2012


On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:10:14 +0100 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.

Why int? That doesn't seem to bring anything.

Regards

Antoine.



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