[Python-Dev] Store timestamps as decimal.Decimal objects

[Matt Joiner]

Analysis paralysis commence. +1 for separate module using decimal.
On Feb 1, 2012 1:44 PM, "PJ Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Such a protocol can easily be extended to any other type - the time
>> module could provide conversion functions for integers and float
>> objects (meaning results may have lower precision than the underlying
>> system calls), while the existing "fromtimestamp" APIs in datetime can
>> be updated to accept the new optional arguments (and perhaps an
>> appropriate class method added to timedelta, too). A class method
>> could also be added to the decimal module to construct instances from
>> integer components (as shown above), since that method of construction
>> isn't actually specific to timestamps.
>>
>
> Why not just make it something like __fromfixed__() and make it a standard
> protocol, implemented on floats, ints, decimals, etc.  Then the API is just
> "time.time(type)", where type is any object providing a __fromfixed__
> method.  ;-)
>
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