[Python-Dev] PEP 410 (Decimal timestamp): the implementation is ready for a review (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 23:48:42 CET 2012

2012/2/16 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

It doesn't change anything to the Makefile issue, if timestamps are different in a single nanosecond, they are seen as different by make (by another program comparing the timestamp of two files using nanosecond precision). But make doesn't compare timestamps for equality -- it compares for newer. That shouldn't be so critical, since if there is an actual causal link between file A and B, the difference in timestamps should always be much larger than 100 ns.

The problem is that shutil.copy2() produces sometimes older timestamp :-/ As shown in my previous email: in such case, make will always rebuild the second file instead of only build it once.

Example with two consecutive runs:

$ ./python diff.py 1329432426.650957952 1329432426.650958061 1.09E-7

$ ./python diff.py 1329432427.854957910 1329432427.854957819 -9.1E-8

Victor

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