Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be>: > On 26-03-14 01:58, Roy Smith wrote: >> previous sunset: -1 day, 22:25:26.295993 >> >> The idea of str() is that it's supposed to return a human-friendly >> representation of a value. Humans do not say things like, "The sun set >> 1 day ago plus 22 hours and 25 minutes". > There is a difference between how people say things and what is useful.
There is a standard timedelta representation: <URL: http://www.schemacentral.com/sc/xsd/t-xsd_duration.html> <URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations> If timedelta() were created today, it really should use that one because it is the only standard one, even though few people would use that in a human interface. Thus: -P1DT22H25M26.295993S Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
