Paul Ganssle <p.gans...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I think it is unlikely that we'll want to experiment with this directly in CPython. I don't think a fixed format (other than the annoying one that you already get from calling `str` on a timedelta) is appropriate, but designing a modular format for time differences is more complicated than it might seem. I have had an open issue on dateutil to implement this for ages, but I haven't seen or come up with any proposals for a DSL for specifying timedelta formats: https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/issues/444 It is annoyingly complicated to do this, and I'd rather it be tried out in other libraries with more flexibility to make breaking changes and a shorter release cadence. Dateutil is a good choice, but a clear and thorough proposal (or at least examples of this done well in other ecosystems we can crib from) is necessary. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue41254> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
