> Scratch that, *I* don't agree. timedelta is a pretty clumsy type to > use. Have you ever tried to compute the number of seconds between two > datetimes? You can't just use the .seconds field, you have to combine > the .days and .seconds fields. And negative timedeltas are even harder > due to the requirement that seconds and microseconds are never > negative; e.g -1 second is represented as -1 days plus 86399 seconds.
Guido, you should switch to Python3! timedelta has a new total_seconds() method since Python 3.2. http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta.total_seconds >>> datetime.timedelta(1).total_seconds() 86400.0 >>> datetime.timedelta(seconds=-1).total_seconds() -1.0 Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
