[Python-Dev] PEP: New timestamp formats
Nick Coghlan
ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 14:18:55 CET 2012
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
>> Even if I like the idea, I don't think that we need all this machinery
>> to support nanosecond resolution. I should maybe forget my idea of
>> using datetime.datetime or datetime.timedelta, or only only support
>> int, float and decimal.Decimal.
>
> I updated my patch (issue #13882) to only support int, float and
> decimal.Decimal types. I suppose that it is just enough.
>
> Only adding decimal.Decimal type avoids many questions:
>
> - which API / protocol should be used to support other types
> - what is the start of a timestamp?
> - etc.
>
> As we seen: using time.time(timestamp=type) API, it will be easy to
> support new types later (using a new protocol, a registry like Unicode
> codecs, or anything else).
Yeah, I can definitely live with the type-based API if we restrict it
to those 3 types.
Cheers,
Nick.
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