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

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Mar 15 01:29:35 CET 2012

On 14/03/2012 00:57, Victor Stinner wrote:

I added two functions to the time module in Python 3.3: wallclock() and monotonic(). (...)

I merged the two functions into one function: time.steady(strict=False).

time.steady() should be monotonic most of the time, but may use a fallback.

time.steady(strict=True) fails with OSError or NotImplementedError if reading the monotonic clock failed or if no monotonic clock is available.

I patched the queue and threading modules to use time.steady() instead of time.time().

Victor