bpo-36895: Undocument removed time.clock by Carreau · Pull Request #13286

bpo-36895: Undocument removed time.clock by Carreau · Pull Request #13286 · python/cpython

`time.clock` has been removed; undocument it and add its removal in the
what's new.

Updated with both of your suggestions.

		Python 3.3: use :func:`os.popen` instead.

		* The function :func:`time.clock` has been removed, it was deprecated since Python
		3.3: use :func:`time.perf_counter` or :func:`time.process_time` instead.

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Hum, you should copy-paste the end of the sentence :-) Add: ", depending on your requirements, to have a well defined behaviour".

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Oh. I'm the original author of "behaviour" spelling. I have been told in the meanwhile that "behaviour" is the UK spelling, but Python doc prefers US spelling: "behavior" ;-)

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Done. Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks for removing time.clock. I was trying to remove it since Python 3.3. I'm the one who deprecated it when I designed and implemented the PEP 418 ;-)

Carreau deleted the undocument-time-clock branch

May 13, 2019 22:35

Always happy to cleanup deprecated features, and have something simpler. I always believe that having a nice, coherent and informative messages with a clear policies and path forward help users adopt new version.