[Python-ideas] millisecond and microsecond times without floats

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 02:35:45 CEST 2015


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:

> # We could use the long form names milliseconds, microseconds and
> nanoseconds but i worry with those that people would inevitably confuse ms
> with microseconds as times and APIs usually given the standard
> abbreviations rather than spelled out.


Note that datetime.timedelta uses long names:

>>> timedelta(milliseconds=5, microseconds=3)
datetime.timedelta(0, 0, 5003)
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