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

[Guido van Rossum]

> With Guido's most recent suggestion (put ints into the tuple), it is
> even more likely that nothing will break if floats are activated (we
> should investigate the two known incidents to find out whether they
> were using the tuple interface).

I was using the tuple interface -- this code needed to work under
Python 2.1.

> I completely agree about reflexes and general feelings. However, we
> assume that this indeed won't matter in practice.

Amen.

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