Feature proposal: Basic default intervals

[sdispater]

Feature proposal: Basic default intervals

[YBadiss]

what would be the advantage over doing

tomorrow_in_paris = now_in_paris.add(days=1)
next_week_in_paris = now_in_paris.add(weeks=1)

as described in the readme?

If you want to use the __add__ operator directly or pass in the value to add, couldn't you do something like

from pendulum import Interval

now_in_paris = pm.now('Europe/Paris')
tomorrow_in_paris = now_in_paris + Interval(days=1)
next_week_in_paris = now_in_paris + Interval(weeks=1)

[sdispater]

Even though I can see the appeal of Ruby's Time.now + 1.day, I don't think it brings that much over the existing API, except saving a few characters, and it loses the ability to create your durations programatically with a dict which I find useful.

[JelteF]

@YBadiss Yes, it's not that these two methods do not work. It's simply that this method would be shorter and IMHO still easy to read and understand. Especially when subtracting something it would be shorter as subtract is quite long.
Your second solution is also what I meant as the way to implement it, simply doing something like this (with the s suffixed names also added):

week = weeks = Interval(weeks=1)
day = days = Interval(days=1)
seconds = seconds = Interval(seconds=1)
...

@sdispater I'm not proposing that we should replace the existing API, just add this very simple feature so it can be quickly used in cases where it would be useful. Isn't saving characters partly why this library is created in the first place?