[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 08:48:49 CEST 2012

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote:

FWIW, I'm not sure you're the right person to drive time PEPs. You don't seem to have come into it with much knowledge of time, and it's taken several repetitions for you to take corrections into account in both this discussion and the Decimal/datetime representation PEP.

The main things required to be a PEP champion are passion and a willingness to listen to expert feedback and change course in response. If someone lacks the former, they will lose steam and their PEP will eventually be abandoned. If they don't listen to expert feedback, then their PEP will ultimately be rejected (sometimes a PEP will be rejected anyway as a poor fit for the language despite being responsive to feedback, but that's no slight to the PEP author).

Victor has shown himself to be quite capable of handling those aspects of the PEP process, and the topics he has recently applied himself to are ones where it is worthwhile having a good answer in the standard library for Python 3.3.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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