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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/datetime.rst5
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_datetime.py5
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS5
-rw-r--r--Modules/datetimemodule.c22
4 files changed, 33 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 758e4d2..908a792 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -287,7 +287,10 @@ Instance methods:
.. method:: timedelta.total_seconds()
Return the total number of seconds contained in the duration. Equivalent to
- ``td.microseconds / 1000000 + td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600``.
+ ``td / timedelta(seconds=1)``.
+
+ Note that for very large time intervals (greater than 270 years on
+ most platforms) this method will lose microsecond accuracy.
.. versionadded:: 3.2
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
index a5b53fb..f65fbca 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_datetime.py
@@ -264,6 +264,11 @@ class TestTimeDelta(HarmlessMixedComparison, unittest.TestCase):
for total_seconds in [123456.789012, -123456.789012, 0.123456, 0, 1e6]:
td = timedelta(seconds=total_seconds)
self.assertEqual(td.total_seconds(), total_seconds)
+ # Issue8644: Test that td.total_seconds() has the same
+ # accuracy as td / timedelta(seconds=1).
+ for ms in [-1, -2, -123]:
+ td = timedelta(microseconds=ms)
+ self.assertEqual(td.total_seconds(), td / timedelta(seconds=1))
def test_carries(self):
t1 = timedelta(days=100,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 77aa054..7a37f79 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -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.
diff --git a/Modules/datetimemodule.c b/Modules/datetimemodule.c
index 83dab2c..d4714bd 100644
--- a/Modules/datetimemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/datetimemodule.c
@@ -2211,9 +2211,25 @@ delta_getstate(PyDateTime_Delta *self)
static PyObject *
delta_total_seconds(PyObject *self)
{
- return PyFloat_FromDouble(GET_TD_MICROSECONDS(self) / 1000000.0 +
- GET_TD_SECONDS(self) +
- GET_TD_DAYS(self) * 24.0 * 3600.0);
+ PyObject *total_seconds;
+ PyObject *total_microseconds;
+ PyObject *one_million;
+
+ total_microseconds = delta_to_microseconds((PyDateTime_Delta *)self);
+ if (total_microseconds == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+
+ one_million = PyLong_FromLong(1000000L);
+ if (one_million == NULL) {
+ Py_DECREF(total_microseconds);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ total_seconds = PyNumber_TrueDivide(total_microseconds, one_million);
+
+ Py_DECREF(total_microseconds);
+ Py_DECREF(one_million);
+ return total_seconds;
}
static PyObject *