[Python-Dev] Store timestamps as decimal.Decimal objects (original) (raw)

PJ Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Feb 1 03:40:02 CET 2012

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

Such a protocol can easily be extended to any other type - the time module could provide conversion functions for integers and float objects (meaning results may have lower precision than the underlying system calls), while the existing "fromtimestamp" APIs in datetime can be updated to accept the new optional arguments (and perhaps an appropriate class method added to timedelta, too). A class method could also be added to the decimal module to construct instances from integer components (as shown above), since that method of construction isn't actually specific to timestamps.

Why not just make it something like fromfixed() and make it a standard protocol, implemented on floats, ints, decimals, etc. Then the API is just "time.time(type)", where type is any object providing a fromfixed method. ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120131/45ffbead/attachment.html>

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