[Python-Dev] datetime.timedelta total_microseconds

[Chris Barker]

Did we ever hear back from the OP as to whether they were using py2 or 3?

If they were unable to find timedelta division in py3 -- that's a pretty
good case that we need something else.


The OP:
"""
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:10 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.
>
"""

-CHB

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