[Python-Dev] Negative timedelta strings (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Mar 28 17:30:35 CET 2014

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:19:52 -0500 Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it open to debate or is it now cast in stone? > > I think the barrier for changing str() is lower than that for changing > repr(), but I would be against any changes in this area. (I may have had a > different view if ISO 8601 syntax for timedeltas was not so ugly. :-)

I think str() should be left alone. It's clear there is no one best str representation for timedelta objects.

But at least we could have one that isn't terribly confusing :-)

Regards

Antoine.

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