[Python-Dev] Rename time.steady(strict=True) to time.monotonic()? (original) (raw)

Jim J. Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 03:36:30 CET 2012

In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/118024.html Steven D'Aprano wrote:

What makes this "steady", given that it can be adjusted and it can go backwards?

It is best-effort for steady, but putting "best" in the name would be an attractive nuisance.

Is steady() merely a convenience function to avoid the user having to write something like this?

try: mytimer = time.monotonic except AttributeError: mytimer = time.time

That would still be worth doing. But I think the main point is that the clock should be monotonic, and should be as precise as possible.

Given that it returns seconds elapsed (since an undefined start), perhaps it should be

time.seconds()

or even

time.counter()

-jJ

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