[Python-Dev] datetime.timedelta total_microseconds

[Henry Chen]

Looks like timedelta has a microseconds property. Would this work for your
needs?

In [12]: d
Out[12]: datetime.timedelta(0, 3, 398407)

In [13]: d.microseconds
Out[13]: 398407

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 9:08 PM Richard Belleville via Python-Dev <
python-dev at python.org> wrote:

> In a recent code review, the following snippet was called out as
> reinventing the
> wheel:
>
> _MICROSECONDS_PER_SECOND = 1000000
>
>
> def _timedelta_to_microseconds(delta):
>   return int(delta.total_seconds() * _MICROSECONDS_PER_SECOND)
>
>
> The reviewer thought that there must already exist a standard library
> function
> that fulfills this functionality. After we had both satisfied ourselves
> that we
> hadn't simply missed something in the documentation, we decided that we had
> better raise the issue with a wider audience.
>
> Does this functionality already exist within the standard library? If not,
> would
> a datetime.timedelta.total_microseconds function be a reasonable addition?
> I
> would be happy to submit a patch for such a thing.
>
> Richard Belleville
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