[Python-Dev] datetime nanosecond support (original) (raw)

martin at v.loewis.de martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jul 25 19:02:09 CEST 2012


1. For the reasons presented, I think it's worth attempting to define a common API that is based on datetime, but is tailored towards high precision time operations (at least using a different internal representation, perhaps supporting TAI).

IIUC, the concern is about the DB-API, which does sort-of mandate that the datetime module is used to represent SQL time types. So not basing this off datetime isn't really an option.

Providing a subtype should work, though.

Regards, Martin



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