Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, at 07:11, Loris Bennett wrote:
>> I now realise that timedelta is not really what I need. I am >> interested solely in pure periods, i.e. numbers of seconds, that I >> can convert back and forth from a format such as > > A timedelta *is* a pure period. A timedelta of one day is 86400 > seconds. > > The thing you *think* timedelta does [making a day act as 23 or 25 > hours across daylight saving boundaries etc], that you *don't* want it > to do, is something it *does not actually do*. I don't know how this > can be made more clear to you. I have now understood this. > timedelta is what you need. if you think it's not, it's because you're > using datetime incorrectly. It is what I need. It just doesn't do the trivial format conversion I (apparently incorrectly) expected. However, I can implement the format conversion myself. [snip (35 lines)] -- This signature is currently under construction. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
