[Python-Dev] Drop the new time.wallclock() function? (original) (raw)

Andrew Svetlov andrew.svetlov at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 02:12:32 CET 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

I suppose that you can use a manual fallback to time.time() if time.monotonic() failed. If time.monotonic() fails, it fails directly at the first call. Example of a fallback working with Python < 3.3:

try: time.monotonic() except (OSError, AttributeError): gettime = time.time else: gettime = time.monotonic

I like 'fallback' solution while get_time is not the best name for high precision timer from my perspective. Can you call it monotonic or realtime?



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