[Python-Dev] proposal: add basic time type to the standard library

2002年2月08日 16:22:24 -0500

> Guido van Rossum writes:
> > In that case, I take back everything I've said about Jim Fulton's
> > requirements. I'm quite sure that in the past he said he needed a
> > very lightweight date/time object, but from what you say it appears
> > this need has disappeared.
>> He wanted this for the catalog, and I suspect he still does. Both
> size and performance (of comparisons) were important, not rendering
> time.

Is comparison the same what Tim mentioned as range searches? I guess
a representation like current Zope timestamps or what time.time()
returns is fine for that -- it is monononous even if not necessarily
continuous. I guess a broken-out time tuple is much harder to compare.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)