[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic time type to the standard library

[Guido van Rossum]

> The discussion is going astray again: Fredrik proposed an abstract
> base type, i.e. a type providing only the name and an interface
> which is defined as convention.
> 
> I am all for adding such an abstract base type (and others
> as well, e.g. for numbers, sequences, money, decimal, etc.)
> with minimal interfaces, but not for fixing a complex interface 
> on top of these.
> 
> What you are currently discussing is heading in the direction
> of imlementing one or more time subclasses. That's two steps
> ahead of what Fredrik was proposing.

Good point.  The two discussions are both useful, but should be
separated.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)