[Python-Dev] PEP: New timestamp formats

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Glenn Linderman <v+python at g.nevcal.com> wrote:
> Sorry to bring this up, but the PEP should probably consider another option:
> Introducing a precedent following os.stat_decimal_times().  Like
> os.stat_float_times, it would decide the return types of timestamps from
> os.stat.  Or something along that line.  Having it affect the results of
> time.time would be weird, though.  And the whole design of
> os.stat_float_times smells of something being designed wrong in the first
> place, to need such an API to retain backward compatibility.  But I'm not
> sure it is, even yet, designed for such flexibility.

We could get away with a global switch for the int->float transition
because ints and floats interoperate pretty well. The same is not true
for binary floats and decimal.Decimal.

Cheers,
Nick.

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