[issue9169] Deprecate use of more than 3 positional arguments in timedelta constructor

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> This would be a backward incompatible change, so it would need to go
> through a deprecation process, but I think someone writing
> 
> HOUR = timedelta(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
> 
> or
> 
> WEEK = timedelta(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
> 
> deserves a deprecation warning.

-1 from me. Deprecating correct code should be done for serious reasons,
not aesthetical (i.e. gratuitous) ones.

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