STINNER Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I wrote this function is my program:
def timedelta2seconds(delta):
"""
Convert a datetime.timedelta() objet to a number of second
(floatting point number).
>>> timedelta2seconds(timedelta(seconds=2, microseconds=40000))
2.04
>>> timedelta2seconds(timedelta(minutes=1, milliseconds=250))
60.25
"""
return delta.microseconds / 1000000.0 \
+ delta.seconds + delta.days * 60*60*24
About the use cases: I use it to compute the compression rate of an
audio song (bytes / seconds), to compute the bit rate of a video
(bytes / seconds). I'm using datetime.timedelta() to store the
audio/video duration.
It's not related to time_t: see issue #2736 for
datetime.datetime.totimestamp(). And about time_t: I don't about 31
bits signed integer. It's not beacuse other programs have arbitrary
limits than Python should also be limited.
About the patch: I don't like the name "tosecs", it's not consistent
with the constructor: timedelta(seconds=...).tosec[ond]s(). And why
dropping the microseconds? For short duration, microseconds are
useful.
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nosy: +haypo
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