Re: [Python-Dev] datetime and timedelta enhancement

2008-11-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 2008-11-14 23:59, Victor Stinner wrote: Hi, There are some interresting tickets about the datetime module: #1673409: datetime module missing some important methods #1083: Confusing error message when dividing timedelta using / #2706: datetime: define division timedelta/timedelta #4291:

Re: [Python-Dev] Optionally using GMP to implement long if available

2008-11-15 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Tim Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. On platforms that support it, this is at least 64x64-64 multiplication, potentially much more expensive than the 32x32-64 (or 31x31-62?) flavor you /intend/ to move to. Thats a good point, thanks! I am not averse to

Re: [Python-Dev] datetime and timedelta enhancement

2008-11-15 Thread Nick Coghlan
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Guess I could add a .weeks attribute to mxDateTime, but no one ever asked for that so far. Given that there are at least 3 different ways to define the number of weeks between two dates, it may be something best left to applications to worry about. OOo implements 2 of them

[Python-Dev] Summaries for Number 2008, First Half

2008-11-15 Thread Calvin Spealman
Wow, how long has this been? OK, so these aren't really the summaries. It is half-done summaries, which I've posted to the wiki for community collaboration. Anyone with a better understanding a conversation or simply the knowledge that I don't know what I'm talking about half the time, the summary