[Python-Dev] PEP 418: rename time.monotonic() to time.steady()? (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Apr 4 00:10:45 CEST 2012


Cameron Simpson wrote:

Sigh. They're different things! For all that "steady" is a slightly vague term, steady and hires and monotonic are independent concepts. Of course a lot of high quality clocks will embody hires and ideally steady or monotonic.

This kind of offer-just-one-thing embedded policy is why I feel the API needs more user control and a polciy free interface, with montonic() et al providing handy prepackaged policy for the common uses.

+1

Ethan



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