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[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Mar 28 18:39:40 CEST 2012 
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> That means choosing a name for the version that falls back to time()
> if monotonic() isn't available so it can be safely substituted for
> time.time() without having to worry about platform compatibility
> implications.

What's wrong with "time.time()" again?  As documented in
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/time.html it makes no guarantees,
and specifically there is *no* guarantee that it will ever behave
*badly*<wink/>.  Of course, we'll have to guarantee that, if a
badly-behaved clock is available, users can get access to it, so call
that time._time().
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