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| author | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-05-08 14:35:02 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> | 2010-05-08 14:35:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 0381e3f16a0d390e956c8adbe905d48e92de9cc6 (patch) | |
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| parent | 161b024b6d2e68295e89f24837a27da599638ea2 (diff) | |
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Issue #8644: Improve accuracy of timedelta.total_seconds, by doing intermediate
computations with integer arithmetic instead of floating point.
td.total_seconds() now agrees with td / timedelta(seconds = 1).
Thanks Alexander Belopolsky for the patch.
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@@ -1105,6 +1105,11 @@ Library Extension Modules ----------------- +- Issue #8644: The accuracy of td.total_seconds() has been improved (by + calculating with integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic internally): + the result is now always correctly rounded, and is equivalent to td / + timedelta(seconds=1). + - Issue #2706: Allow division of a timedelta by another timedelta: timedelta / timedelta, timedelta % timedelta, timedelta // timedelta and divmod(timedelta, timedelta) are all supported. |