[Python-Dev] Negative timedelta strings

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:19:52 -0500
Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is it open to debate or is it now cast in stone?
> >
> > I think the barrier for changing str() is lower than that for changing
> > repr(), but I would be against any changes in this area.  (I may have had a
> > different view if ISO 8601 syntax for timedeltas was not so ugly. :-)
> 
> I think str() should be left alone. It's clear there is no one best
> str representation for timedelta objects.

But at least we could have one that isn't terribly confusing :-)

Regards

Antoine.