Skip Montanaro added the comment: There is no datetime.totimestamp because the range of time represented by a datetime object far exceeds the range of a normal int-based Unix timestamp (roughly 1970-2038). Datetime objects before the start of the Unix epoch would be represented by negative numbers. As far as I know, the common Unix library functions which accept epoch times wouldn't know what to do with a negative number.
That said, you stated these missing methods were important. Can you offer some use cases which would support that contention? I personally don't think a argument for symmetry would be a convincing use case and that's the only one I can think of. ---------- nosy: +skip.montanaro _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1673409> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
