Tim Peters added the comment:
The decision to omit microseconds when 0 was a Guido pronouncement, back when
datetime was first written. The idea is that str() is supposed to be friendly,
and for the vast number of applications that don't use microseconds at all,
it's unfriendly to shove ".000000" in their face all the time. Much the same
reason is behind why, e.g., str(2.0) doesn't produce "2.0000000000000000".
I doubt this will change. If you want to use a single format, you could
massage the data first, like
if '.' not in dt:
dt += ".000000"
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nosy: +tim.peters
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