On 03.08.2013 18:32, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
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> Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:
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> What is so special about seconds?  Why not days? As in
> 
>>>> timedelta(3) // 2
> timedelta(1)
> 
> 
> Note that in 3.x we have timedelta over timedelta division that lets you do floor division in arbitrary time units.
> 
> What is the use case for timedelta // int that rounds down to a second?  I suspect in most cases you really want timedelta // timedelta(seconds=int) instead.

The notion of fraction in time usually applies to seconds, not
days, hours or minutes. Since floor removes fractions, the natural
expectation is to have // int apply to seconds, not microseconds
(which represent fractions of a second).

That said, I don't think having // division on timedeltas is useful
at all. I'd be +1 on removing this support and raise a TypeError
instead.