[Python-ideas] Boolean parameters guidelines

[Zachary Ware]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
>>> Additionally, it seems like this could be said for other primitive datatypes
>>> as well:
>>>
>>>>>> sleep(100)  # minutes?
>>
>> Don't be silly. Why on earth would that argument represent minutes?
>>
>> It's days, for consistency with `timedelta(100)`.
>
> Still best to be explicit:
>
>>>> sleep(timedelta(100))
>
> It would be awesome if that actually worked.

You just weren't explicit enough:

   >>> sleep(timedelta(100).total_seconds())

This is drifting pretty far from the topic at hand, though.

-- 
Zach