[Python-Dev] datetime.timedelta total_microseconds

[Henry Chen]

Oops. That isn't the TOTAL microseconds, but just the microseconds portion.
Sorry for the confusion.

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:23 PM Henry Chen <tahafut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks like timedelta has a microseconds property. Would this work for your
> needs?
>
> In [12]: d
> Out[12]: datetime.timedelta(0, 3, 398407)
>
> In [13]: d.microseconds
> Out[13]: 398407
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:08 PM Richard Belleville via Python-Dev <
> python-dev at python.org> wrote:
>
>> In a recent code review, the following snippet was called out as
>> reinventing the
>> wheel:
>>
>> _MICROSECONDS_PER_SECOND = 1000000
>>
>>
>> def _timedelta_to_microseconds(delta):
>>   return int(delta.total_seconds() * _MICROSECONDS_PER_SECOND)
>>
>>
>> The reviewer thought that there must already exist a standard library
>> function
>> that fulfills this functionality. After we had both satisfied ourselves
>> that we
>> hadn't simply missed something in the documentation, we decided that we
>> had
>> better raise the issue with a wider audience.
>>
>> Does this functionality already exist within the standard library? If
>> not, would
>> a datetime.timedelta.total_microseconds function be a reasonable
>> addition? I
>> would be happy to submit a patch for such a thing.
>>
>> Richard Belleville
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