[Python-checkins] Trivial Change: Remove unhelpful doc in `datetime.timedelta` (#100164)

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Sun Feb 5 21:55:43 EST 2023


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d3e2dd6e71bd8e5482973891926d5df19be687eb
commit: d3e2dd6e71bd8e5482973891926d5df19be687eb
branch: main
author: Matty G <meawoppl at gmail.com>
committer: abalkin <abalkin at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2023-02-06T06:55:37+04:00
summary:

Trivial Change: Remove unhelpful doc in `datetime.timedelta` (#100164)

files:
M Lib/datetime.py

diff --git a/Lib/datetime.py b/Lib/datetime.py
index 68746de1cabf..637144637485 100644
--- a/Lib/datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/datetime.py
@@ -587,9 +587,12 @@ class timedelta:
     returning a timedelta, and addition or subtraction of a datetime
     and a timedelta giving a datetime.
 
-    Representation: (days, seconds, microseconds).  Why?  Because I
-    felt like it.
+    Representation: (days, seconds, microseconds).
     """
+    # The representation of (days, seconds, microseconds) was chosen
+    # arbitrarily; the exact rationale originally specified in the docstring
+    # was "Because I felt like it."
+
     __slots__ = '_days', '_seconds', '_microseconds', '_hashcode'
 
     def __new__(cls, days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0,



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