Message 155698 - Python tracker

Message155698

Author	vstinner
Recipients	belopolsky, brian.curtin, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, rnk, tim.golden, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2012-03-14.00:49:06
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Message-id	<1331686147.58.0.0164619607167.issue9079@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> The new patch, issue9079.diff exposes gettimeofday > as time.gettimeofday() returning (sec, usec) pair. A tuple is not the preferred type for a timestamp: Python uses float and is not going to use something different (the PEP 410 was just rejected). I don't see what we need a new function: there is always time.time(). I'm closing this issue because I consider it as done.

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> The new patch, issue9079.diff exposes gettimeofday
> as time.gettimeofday() returning (sec, usec) pair.

A tuple is not the preferred type for a timestamp: Python uses float and is not going to use something different (the PEP 410 was just rejected).

I don't see what we need a new function: there is always time.time().

I'm closing this issue because I consider it as done.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2012-03-14 00:49:07	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, tim.peters, georg.brandl, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, belopolsky, pitrou, tim.golden, brian.curtin, rnk
2012-03-14 00:49:07	vstinner	set	messageid: <1331686147.58.0.0164619607167.issue9079@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2012-03-14 00:49:07	vstinner	link	issue9079 messages
2012-03-14 00:49:06	vstinner	create