• @dumples@midwest.social
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    71 month ago

    Python does have a year option that they are not using. Depending on the application I would use 365 for a year to get a consistent number of days.

    • @sunshine@lemmy.mlOP
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      81 month ago

      I did look up the help for that function to make this meme but I must have missed that option. in my defense I’ve only been using Python for like 10 years

    • Arthur Besse
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      18 days ago

      Python does have a year option that they are not using.

      No, it doesn’t:

      help(datetime.timedelta)
      Help on class timedelta in module datetime:
      
      class timedelta(builtins.object)
       |  Difference between two datetime values.
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       |  timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)
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       |  All arguments are optional and default to 0.
       |  Arguments may be integers or floats, and may be positive or negative.