hightime 1.0.0

Hightime Python API

Hightime

Overview

Hightime allows for up to yoctosecond precision replacements for the datetime datetime and timedelta types.

Installation

Hightime can be installed by cloning the master branch and then in a command line in the directory of setup.py run:

pip install --pre .

Or by installing from PyPI using:

pip install hightime

Examples

>>> from hightime import datetime
>>> from hightime import timedelta

>>> high_noon = datetime(
...   year=1952,
...   month=7,
...   day=24,
...   hour=12,
...   minute=0,
...   second=30,
...   microsecond=0,
... )

>>> print(high_noon)
1952-07-24 12:00:30

>>> hesitation = timedelta(microseconds=10, femtoseconds=203456)

>>> print(hesitation)
0:00:00.000010000203456

>>> reaction = high_noon + hesitation

>>> print(reaction)
1952-07-24 12:00:30.000010000203456

>>> print(high_noon + high_noon)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'datetime' and 'datetime'

>>> print(hesitation * 2)
0:00:00.000020000406912

See the readthedocs page for more detailed examples and documentation.

License

Hightime is licensed under an MIT-style license.

See LICENSE for details about how hightime is licensed.

Other incorporated projects may be licensed under different licenses. All licenses allow for non-commercial and commercial use.