[Python-ideas] intuitive timedeltas like in go

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 at 09:37 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06.01.16 19:04, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> > 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
>
> Does Go support keyword arguments?
>

Nope: https://golang.org/ref/spec#Calls

-Brett


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