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Author belopolsky
Recipients Arfrever, belopolsky, jcea, khenriksson, lars.gustaebel, loewis, mark.dickinson, nadeem.vawda, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall
Date 2011-06-03.21:50:00
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> I suggest that rather than using composite time stamps, decimal.Decimal is used to represent high-precision time in Python.

I support this idea in theory, but as long as decimal is implemented
in Python, os module should probably expose a low level (tuple-based?)
interface and a higher level module would provide Decimal-based
high-precision time.

BTW, what is the status of cdecimal?
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