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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Feb 3 02:25:53 CET 2012


On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:25:25 +0100 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:

> That said, I don't understand why we couldn't simply deprecate > statfloattimes() right now. Having an option for integer timestamps > is pointless, you can just call int() on the result if you want.

So which API do you propose for time.time() to get a Decimal object? time.time(timestamp=decimal.Decimal) time.time(decimal=True) or time.time(hires=True)

time.time(type=decimal.Decimal) sounds fine.

If you want a boolean argument, either decimal=True or exact=True.

Regards

Antoine.



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