> Even if I like the idea, I don't think that we need all this machinery > to support nanosecond resolution. I should maybe forget my idea of > using datetime.datetime or datetime.timedelta, or only only support > int, float and decimal.Decimal.
I updated my patch (issue #13882) to only support int, float and decimal.Decimal types. I suppose that it is just enough. Only adding decimal.Decimal type avoids many questions: - which API / protocol should be used to support other types - what is the start of a timestamp? - etc. As we seen: using time.time(timestamp=type) API, it will be easy to support new types later (using a new protocol, a registry like Unicode codecs, or anything else). Let's start with decimal.Decimal and support it correctly (e.g. patch datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and os.*utime*() functions). Victor _______________________________________________ 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
