python时间函数纳秒_在Python中格式化纳秒

I have some log files with times in the format HH:MM::SS.nano_seconds (e.g. 01:02:03.123456789). I would like to create a datetime in python so I can neatly do math on the time (e.g. take time differences). strptime works well for microseconds using %f. Do the Python datetime and time modules really not support nanoseconds?

Thanks

解决方案

You can see from the source that datetime objects don't support anything more fine than microseconds. As pointed out by Mike Pennington in the comments, this is because actual hardware clocks aren't nearly that precise. Wikipedia says that HPET has frequency "at least 10 MHz," which means one tick per 100 nanoseconds.

If you can live with throwing out the last three digits (which probably aren't too meaningful anyway), you could parse this by just slicing the input string to have only six digits after the decimal point and parsing with %f. Otherwise, it looks like you'll have to implement the subtraction yourself.