Message 155139 - Python tracker

Message155139

Author	vstinner
Recipients	neologix, pitrou, tasslehoff, vstinner
Date	2012-03-08.00:38:56
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> Well, in 3.3 we could use clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) where available. It's better to use time.monotonic(). > That said, this is not specific to Queue.get() and will probably happen with many similar functions taking a timeout parameter. Yep, it may be used for lock.acquire(timeout=timeout) for example. It would help to have a portable monotonic clock API in C.

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> Well, in 3.3 we could use clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC) where available.

It's better to use time.monotonic().

> That said, this is not specific to Queue.get() and will probably happen with many similar functions taking a timeout parameter.

Yep, it may be used for lock.acquire(timeout=timeout) for example. It 
would help to have a portable monotonic clock API in C.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-08 00:38:57	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, pitrou, neologix, tasslehoff
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2012-03-08 00:38:56	vstinner	create