-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/27/2015 06:03 PM, Tim Peters wrote:
> Even if days weren't a distinguished unit for timedelta, I'd still > much rather write, e.g., > > timedelta(days=5, hours=3) > > than > > timedelta(hours=123) > > or > > timedelta(hours=5*24 + 3) > > etc. The intent of the first spelling is obvious at a glance. - From a human's perspective, "a day from now" is always potentially unambigous, just like "a month from now" or "a year from now", whereas "24 hours from now" is never so. In a given application, a user who doesn't care can always write a helper function to generate hours; in an applicatino whose developer who *does* care, the 'days' argument to timedelta in its current does *not* help achieve her goal: it is an attractive nuisance she will have to learn to avoid. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJVttPGAAoJEPKpaDSJE9HY0N4QAMQ+Q1/m6Dgg97aS1fRFrMA1 gi7lrWEuW0II0V9bOvB+j0IkASBahreauYb+MBnXXSy1JEDRpVQX7h4SHzLMQ+TF YSKnxCCY1UktpegkriZF7FoN8Rhv3egA01qWPO0RjHUkZym7/W2zN5cXhRTeij8N dbAcoT5y4gdii55T+edWjYNJDFihgKNEuh2KMPmMH37tYqOKCFsz1ojX2ox7e4dC 2yEACVz8G+bmUQQ/WXRKsM4pvMf616U9qkMcEYCVzqV+4smX+/z6c7gs244UVcr4 b4m6Du6UTNAtZpSkToYZvN9R2WbDmbG4FnUrF9eso7m1S2BjdlNyxJS7zGmp+Ttj XxmPeptC/INx8EaILYlB70gDDVztU+QBeolP9lfmfpY3srhI1a2uIGH2LhhOuy+F xcRoGaOIg3+JFyPa8ye6OAg6Vka9h+e02ZWaAAxfRhZgnnNduUnTaomuTKi8sCAa s3AHG4E5dOTJdLGxhgVEOSl9nqIJNmVxLxxb2utcS7W5G28KHYLzgV6w2r/fOkYf FvN5Lj6qQuQTPKdN807/7cl1fqOGPg4P74GMojVA816aNtjh4hTw/2AXqZ0Q0LTq QzhatRaDY+cu1SSZV9aDuCxvm4chjITucb6g7/dvR1xSY4Y+oxFgt3/KO2N5jJSY jBlJGbgGp9kukkwO2ret =Aw0Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com