Message 77868 - Python tracker

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Author	vstinner
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, brett.cannon, catlee, erik.stephens, guettli, jribbens, lemburg, pitrou, skip.montanaro, srittau, steve.roberts, tim.peters, tomster, vstinner
Date	2008-12-15.13:15:46
SpamBayes Score	0.017413871
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1229346947.85.0.0746038391436.issue1673409@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> (...) totimestamp() (...) return value should be similar > to that of time.time(), i.e. a float float is a source of many problems (rounding problems), especially for huge values: float is unable to store correctly microseconds for big values: see msg75426. A simple tuple (int, int) is simple and there is no rounding/float limit.

> (...) totimestamp() (...) return value should be similar
> to that of time.time(), i.e. a float

float is a source of many problems (rounding problems), especially for 
huge values: float is unable to store correctly microseconds for big 
values: see msg75426. A simple tuple (int, int) is simple and there is 
no rounding/float limit.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-12-15 13:15:47	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, lemburg, tim.peters, skip.montanaro, brett.cannon, jribbens, srittau, guettli, amaury.forgeotdarc, belopolsky, pitrou, catlee, tomster, erik.stephens, steve.roberts
2008-12-15 13:15:47	vstinner	set	messageid: <1229346947.85.0.0746038391436.issue1673409@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-12-15 13:15:46	vstinner	link	issue1673409 messages
2008-12-15 13:15:46	vstinner	create