[Python-Dev] float atime/mtime/ctime - a bad idea?

[Guido van Rossum]

> > I wonder if we could let the tuple-ish interface return ints forever
> > (or until it's no longer supported).
> 
> That would not be easy to implement. The structseq type does not
> support unnamed sequence members (yet), which we'ld need: the int
> members would have only indices, and the float members only names.  
> 
> It probably could be made work by allowing NULL names in a
> PyStructSequence_Field. I'll try to do this.

That sounds good to me.  Or you could "subclass" the PyStructSequence
class with something that special-cases the st_?time attributes.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)