[Python-Dev] redux: fractional seconds in strptime

[Aahz]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005, Alex Martelli wrote:
> On 2005 Jan 14, at 19:11, Aahz wrote:
>>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()
>
> And why would that be a problem?  It would keep working just like
> today, assuming you're answering the "don't see why" part.  From the
> start, we discussed fractional seconds being available only as an
> ATTRIBUTE of a struct_time, not an ITEM (==iteration on a struct_time
> will keep working just line now).

Uh, I missed the second "not" in Brett's first sentence of second
paragraph.  Never mind! </litella>
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