[Python-ideas] millisecond and microsecond times without floats

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:35 PM Alexander Belopolsky <
alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
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>> # 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.
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> Note that datetime.timedelta uses long names:
>
> >>> timedelta(milliseconds=5, microseconds=3)
> datetime.timedelta(0, 0, 5003)
>

That is a good vote for consistency with its API...
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