STINNER Victor wrote:
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> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@gmail.com> added the comment:
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>> time.clock() has been in use for ages in many many scripts.
>> We don't want to carelessly break all those.
> 
> I don't want to remove the function, just mark it as deprecated to
> avoid confusion. It will only be removed from the next major Python.

Why ? There's no other single function providing the same functionality,
so it's not even a candidate for deprecation.

Similar functionality is available via several different functions,
but that's true for a lot functions in th stdlib.