I think strftime / strptime support is a low-priority concern on this topic, and can probably be discussed independently of the core nanosecond support. Regards Antoine. On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:14:27 -0800 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > Another issue to consider here is that parsing and printing should be > symmetrical. The %f format gobbles up exactly 6 digits. > > Finally, strptime and strftime are not invented by Python, the same > functions with (mostly) the same format characters are defined by other > languages. Is there not a single other language that has added support for > nanoseconds to its strftime/strptime? (I wouldn't be surprised if there > wasn't -- while computer clocks have a precision in nanoseconds, that > doesn't mean they are that *accurate* at all (even with ntpd running). > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Matthieu Bec <mdcb808 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > ...or keep using "%f" if acceptable... > > > > That might be a problem. While it will probably work most of the time, > > there are likely to be situations where the caller assumes it > > generates a six-digit string. I did a little poking around. It seems > > like "%N" isn't used. > > > > Skip > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list > > Python-Dev at python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > > Unsubscribe: > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > > > > >
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