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[Python-ideas] Add time.time_ns(): system clock with nanosecond resolution

Koos Zevenhoven k7hoven at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 13:40:00 EDT 2017 
All joking aside, I actually like it that Python also allows one to
interact with lower-level concepts when needed. Maybe there could be even
more of this?

-- Koos

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to have time.time_ns() -- this is most parallel to st_mtime_ns.
>>
>> ​
> Welcome to the list Guido! You sound like a C programmer. For many people,
> that was the best language they knew of when they learned to program. But
> have you ever tried Python? You should give it a try!
>
>
> -- Koos
>
> P.S. ​Sorry, couldn't resist :-) I guess having two versions of one
> function would not be that bad. I will probably never use the ns version
> anyway. But I'd like a more general solution to such problems in the long
> run.
>
>
> --
> + Koos Zevenhoven + http://twitter.com/k7hoven +
>



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