[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 12:34:27 CEST 2012


2012/4/5 PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:

More details why it's hard to define such function and why I dropped it from the PEP.

If someone wants to propose again such function ("monotonic or fallback to system" clock), two issues should be solved:  - 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.

Did you read the following section of the PEP? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0418/#working-around-operating-system-bugs

Did I miss something? If yes, could you write a patch for the PEP please?

Victor



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