timedelta doesn't recognize Sage integers

[jason]

This gives an error:

sage: version()
'Sage Version 4.6, Release Date: 2010-10-30'
sage: import datetime
sage: datetime.timedelta(hours=6)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/grout/<ipython console> in <module>()

TypeError: unsupported type for timedelta hours component: sage.rings.integer.Integer

but this does not

sage: datetime.timedelta(hours=int(6))
datetime.timedelta(0, 21600)

Is this possible to fix without patching Python?

[mhansen]

There's no way to do this without patching Python. The timedelta function has explicit PyInt_Check, PyLong_Check, and PyFloat_Check. So, unless we make integer a subclass of int/long, this won't work without an upstream change.

[mhansen]

See ​https://github.com/python-git/python/blob/master/Modules/datetimemodule.c

[chapoton]

Let us close this one.

[vdelecroix]

Why should we close this?

[chapoton]

Well, anybody needing that can just wrap with int(). No need for anything sophisticated.. And after 5 years of nobody doing nothing, should we wait for another 5 years ?

[vdelecroix]

milestone update 8.3 -> 8.4