A function with "microseconds" in the name IMO misleadingly suggests
that it has something closer to microsecond accuracy than a 1-second
granularity.
Rob Cliffe
On 14/02/2019 05:05:54, Richard Belleville via Python-Dev 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.
Does this functionality already exist within the standard library? If
not, would
a datetime.timedelta.total_microseconds function be a reasonable
addition? I
would be happy to submit a patch for such a thing.
Richard Belleville
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