Martin Panter added the comment: I think the benefit of the repr being easier to understand outweighs the pain of breaking the old format. If the change is a problem, that might be mitigated by adding an entry to the “Porting to Python 3.7” documentation.
I don’t think my option of factoring the minus sign out to the front of the timedelta constructor was mentioned on Python-dev. The advantage is that it doesn’t mention problematic negative attribute values, and if you negate a timedelta, you still get the right attribute values: >>> d -datetime.timedelta(seconds=60) >>> -d datetime.timedelta(seconds=60) >>> (-d).seconds 60 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30302> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
