[Python-ideas] intuitive timedeltas like in go

[Ian Kelly]

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> timedelta handling always felt cumbersome to me:
>
> from datetime import timedelta
>
> short_period = timedelta(seconds=10)
> long_period = timedelta(hours=4, seconds=37)
>
> Today, I came across this one https://github.com/lxc/lxd/pull/1471/files and
> I found the creation of a 10 seconds timeout extremely intuitive. Would this
> represent a valuable addition to Python?
>
> from datetime import second, hour
>
> short period = 10*second
> long_period = 4*hour + 37*second

Anybody who wants this can already accomplish it with just a few extra lines:

>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> second = timedelta(seconds=1)
>>> hour = timedelta(hours=1)
>>> 10*second
datetime.timedelta(0, 10)
>>> 4*hour + 37*second
datetime.timedelta(0, 14437)