[Python-Dev] redux: fractional seconds in strptime

[Aahz]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005, Brett C. wrote:
>
> Right, it's a struct_time object; just force of habit to call it a time 
> tuple.
> 
> And I technically don't see why a fractional second attribute could not be 
> added that is not represented in the tuple.  But I personally would like to 
> see struct_tm eliminated in Py3k and replaced with datetime usage.  My wish 
> is to have the 'time' module stripped down to only the bare essentials that 
> just don't fit in datetime and push everyone to use datetime for most 
> things.

Because of people doing things like

year, month, day, hour, min, sec, junk, junk, junk = time.localtime()
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