On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

Hi,

timedelta handling always felt cumbersome to me:

from datetime import timedelta

short_period = timedelta(seconds=10) long_period = timedelta(hours=4, seconds=37)

Today, I came across this one https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/1471/files and I found the creation of a 10 seconds timeout extremely intuitive. Would this represent a valuable addition to Python?

from datetime import second, hour

short period = 10*second long_period = 4*hour + 37*second

Anybody who wants this can already accomplish it with just a few extra lines:

...

...

from datetime import timedelta second = timedelta(seconds=1) hour = timedelta(hours=1) 10*second datetime.timedelta(0, 10) 4*hour + 37*second datetime.timedelta(0, 14437)

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze@mail.de> wrote:

Hi,

timedelta handling always felt cumbersome to me:

from datetime import timedelta

short_period = timedelta(seconds=10) long_period = timedelta(hours=4, seconds=37)

Today, I came across this one https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/1471/files and I found the creation of a 10 seconds timeout extremely intuitive. Would this represent a valuable addition to Python?

from datetime import second, hour

short period = 10*second long_period = 4*hour + 37*second

Anybody who wants this can already accomplish it with just a few extra lines:

...

...

from datetime import timedelta second = timedelta(seconds=1) hour = timedelta(hours=1) 10*second datetime.timedelta(0, 10) 4*hour + 37*second datetime.timedelta(0, 14437)