[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-3066) Add support for duration logical type to Python implementation

["Subhash Bhushan (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Subhash Bhushan commented on AVRO-3066:
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I can take this up.

Would the maintainers be ok with including `dateutil` as a requisite? Or would it be preferable to duplicate and own the code within `avro`?

> Add support for duration logical type to Python implementation
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-3066
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3066
>             Project: Apache Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: python
>            Reporter: Spencer Nelson
>            Priority: Minor
>
> The duration logical type was added back in \AVRO-739, but it still isn't in the Python implementation.
> Because durations encode an integer number of months in addition to days and seconds, the standard library's {{datetime.timedelta}} is insufficient for representing an Avro duration.
> One option is to return a tuple - the triplet of months, days, and seconds. Another option is to use a [relativedelta|https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/relativedelta.html] from the well-known, but third-party, {{dateutil}} library. I would lean towards the latter, but I understand the downsides of adding a dependency.



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