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On Apr 4, 2012 7:28 PM, "Victor Stinner" <victor.stinner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> More details why it's hard to define such function and why I dropped
> it from the PEP.
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> If someone wants to propose again such function ("monotonic or
> fallback to system" clock), two issues should be solved:
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> �- name of the function
> �- description of the function

Maybe I missed it, but did anyone ever give a reason why the fallback couldn't be to Steven D'Aprano's monotonic wrapper algorithm over the system clock?� (Given a suitable minimum delta.)� That function appeared to me to provide a sufficiently monotonic clock for timeout purposes, if nothing else.