[Python-3000] format and datetime (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Sep 12 00:58:11 CEST 2007


On 9/11/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote: > I don't expect there to be a practical use for nanoseconds (even > microseconds are doubtful, but useful since one might want unique > timestamps for more than 1000 events per second).

But... what if you want unique timestamps for more than 1000000 events per second? :-)

Then you can't use the datetime module, or you'll have to petition for an extension to it.

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



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