Re: [Python-Dev] os.stat and nanosecond precision

2011-06-03 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> What should the name of the (seconds, nanoseconds) tuple be? See my comment: -1 on having such a tuple in the first place. We have the decimal type to represent arbitrary-precision time stamps. > st_atim, st_ctim and st_mtim has bee suggested and is what the POSIX > specification uses. This is

Re: [Python-Dev] os.stat and nanosecond precision

2011-06-03 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Ross Lagerwall wrote: > .. > What should the name of the (seconds, nanoseconds) tuple be? > st_atim, st_ctim and st_mtim has bee suggested and is what the POSIX > specification uses. This is confusingly similar to the existing > st_atime, st_ctime and st_mtime. > S

[Python-Dev] os.stat and nanosecond precision

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Lagerwall
With regards to http://bugs.python.org/issue11457 What should the name of the (seconds, nanoseconds) tuple be? st_atim, st_ctim and st_mtim has bee suggested and is what the POSIX specification uses. This is confusingly similar to the existing st_atime, st_ctime and st_mtime. Also, should it be t