About PEP 303, I use divmod for lots (and lots) of things, but I've got no real use for an extended divmod() either. -1: it would be low-use, confusing clutter.
[Barry] > Interesting. Just yesterday I wrote a simple stopwatch-like timer > script and I found that I needed three divmod calls to convert from > seconds into a datetime.time object. You don't need any divmods for that ... ... > Actually, no, because datetime.time(seconds=50227) throws an exception. That's right: the time class models a time of day, not "seconds from Barry's implied midnight epoch" (or something like that). What you wanted was a timedelta instead. Converting that to a time is then simplicity itself <wink>: >>> print (datetime(1, 1, 1) + timedelta(seconds=50227)).time() 13:57:07 You have to go thru a datetime object first because time objects don't support arithmetic either. That isn't all bad. By going thru a datetime first, it's clear what happens if the number of seconds you feed in exceeds a day's worth. You can check for that or ignore it then, depending on what your app wants (it may or may not be "an error", depending on the app). _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
