STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment: > I think that one of available types of time values returned by os.stat() > should allow to directly pass these values to os.futimens() and > os.utimensat(), which expect (time_sec, time_nsec) tuples.
Oh, I realized that these two functions were added to Python 3.3, so it is not too late to change their API. I would prefer to limit the number of timestamp formats: Python 3.2 has float and datetime, I (and Martin) propose to add Decimal to Python 3.3 (to get nanosecond resolution). (sec, nsec) is a new format, except if Python 3.2 has already functions expecting such tuple? I know that the underlying C function expects a timespec structure, but Python can try to use a higher level API, isn't it? Decimal is more practical than a tuple because you can just write : t2-t1 to compute a time delta. Decimal has other advantages (read the issue for the full list ;-)). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11457> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
