[Python-Dev] Drop the new time.wallclock() function? (original) (raw)
Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Thu Mar 15 00:38:02 CET 2012
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On 13Mar2012 17:27, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: | I think wallclock() is an awkward name; in other contexts I've seen | "wall clock time" used to mean the time that a clock on the wall would | show, i.e. local time. This matches definition #1 of | http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wall-time.html (while yours matches | #2 :-).
I think this also. A "wallclock()" function that did not return real world elapsed time seconds would be misleading or at least disconcerting.
| Maybe it could be called realtime()?
"elapsedtime()?" It is getting a bit long though.
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