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

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 17:41:41 CET 2014

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

(*) As an aside (that is, this belongs in a separate thread if you want to discuss it), in my opinion, attempting to support ISO 8601 formatting is pointless without the presence of an anchor datetime.

I meant ISO 8601 syntax for "durations" [1].

""" For example, "P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S" represents a duration of "three years, six months, four days, twelve hours, thirty minutes, and five seconds". """

And if you have to ask - no I don't want to see this anywhere near Python stdlib. :-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140328/cd7c54bf/attachment.html>

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