[Python-Dev] an alternative to embedding policy in PEP 418 (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Thu Apr 5 01:14:55 CEST 2012

On 05Apr2012 08:50, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote: | Although I don't like the getclock() API, I don't think this argument against | it is a good one.

Just to divert briefly; you said in another post you didn't like the API and (also/because?) it didn't help discoverability.

My core objective was to allow users to query for clocks, and ideally enumerate and inspect all clocks. Without the caller having platform specific knowledge.

Allowing for the sake of discussion that this is desirable, what would you propose as an API instead of get_clock() (and its friend, get_clocks() for enumeration, that I should stuff into the code).

Cheers,

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