Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:16:52 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > >> Claes at work wrote: >> >>> Please tell me there is a simpler way than subtracting two datetimes >>> to get a timedelta and then compute >>> >>> days * number of seconds per day + seconds >>> >>> from it myself?? >> why would you have to do that yourself? why not let Python do it for >> you? here's the code: >> >> seconds = td.days * 86400 + td.seconds > > I'm sure somebody as experienced as Fredrik doesn't need to be told why > peppering code with magic constants like 84600 are a less than ideal > solution -- and for those who do need to be told, carefully compare what I > wrote to what Fredrik wrote to see one of those reasons.
Well, you don't pepper your code with magic numbers. You write a well-named function and pepper your code with calls to that function. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
