I would very much welcome this to the standard library as it seems like a useful function; I certainly would make good use of it and I'm sure others working with durations use similar code for user-facing parts.
> With a go like parsing it would be: > >>> datetime.parse_duration("2w50d8h5m27s10ms2000us") I feel like this would fit better as an alternate constructor (e.g. timedelta.from_string) however _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZSU7Y4AWNBTQ53CPG32JN4GE3RSHR5OY/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/