yes that was mentioned in this thread, %nN looks quite reasonable.
still, I'd like to steer the conversation back to the other aspect -
where should something like struct_timespec land in the first place, is
datetime really the best to capture that?
Most of the conversation has been revolving around strftime/strptime.
That seems to validate Antoine's point in the first place.
Let's see what people say but maybe this thread should end to restart as
separate topics?
Regards,
Matthieu
On 12/16/14 11:08 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:10 AM, matthieu bec <m...@gmto.org
<mailto:m...@gmto.org>> wrote:
> Agreed with Antoine, strftime/strptime are somewhat different concerns.
> Doesn't mean thay cannot be fixed at the same time but it's a bit a
> separate.
Which reminds me... Somewhere else (maybe elsewhere in this thread?
maybe on a bug tracker issue?) someone mentioned that Ruby uses %N for
fractions of a second (and %L specifically for milliseconds). Here's the
bit from the Ruby strftime doc:
%L - Millisecond of the second (000..999)
%N - Fractional seconds digits, default is 9 digits (nanosecond)
%3N millisecond (3 digits)
%6N microsecond (6 digits)
%9N nanosecond (9 digits)
%12N picosecond (12 digits)
There's no obvious reason I can see to reinvent this particular wheel,
at least the %N spoke. The only question might be whether to modify
Python's existing %f format to accept a precision (defaulting to 6), or
add %N in a manner similar (or identical) to Ruby's semantics.
Skip
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