[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r61403 - python/trunk/Misc/NEWS

Sat Mar 15 19:37:59 CET 2008

skip.montanaro wrote:
> Author: skip.montanaro
> Date: Sat Mar 15 17:07:11 2008
> New Revision: 61403
>> Modified:
> python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
> Log:
> .
>>> Modified: python/trunk/Misc/NEWS
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	(original)
> +++ python/trunk/Misc/NEWS	Sat Mar 15 17:07:11 2008
> @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
> Library
> -------
>> +- Issue #1158: add %f format (fractions of a second represented as
> + microseconds) to datetime objects. Understood by both strptime and
> + strftime.

%f makes me think femtoseconds :)
Any particular reason we can't use '%u' to align with the convention of 
 abbreviating microseconds as 'us' when a character encoding doesn't 
provide convenient access to the Greek letter mu? (e.g. ASCII)
Cheers,
Nick.
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