> On 8 Mar 2017, at 16:01, Francesco Franchina <cescu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm shortly writing to you about a reflection I lately made upon the current > functioning of __str__ for the time's class. > > Before expressing my thought and proposal, I want to make sure we all agree > on a simple and clear fact: > the __str__ magic method is used to give a literal and human-readable > representation to the object (unlike __repr__). > > Generally this is true across the python panorama. It's not true for the time > class, for example. > > >>> import time > >>> a = time.localtime() > >>> a.__str__() > 'time.struct_time(tm_year=2017, tm_mon=3, tm_mday=8, tm_hour=16, tm_min=6, > tm_sec=16, tm_wday=2, tm_yday=67, tm_isdst=0)' > > Well, don't get me wrong: the main aim of the __str__ method has been > accomplished but, imho, not in the most pythonic way. > > I just wanted to ask you: what do you think about re-writing the __str__ of > the time class so it would return something like > ISO 8601 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601>] format? Wouldn't it be more > meaningful? Especially in the JS-everywhere-era > it could be more more productive. > > > TL;DR > __str__ for dates should return a human-readable date format (eg: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601>)
Just use datetime module instead of time? >>> datetime.datetime.now().isoformat() '2017-03-08T16:14:58.448801' Barry
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