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

Juancarlo Añez apalala at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 21:19:34 EDT 2017 
It could be: time.time(ns=True)

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Sorry, that's an in-joke. Koos is expressing his disappointment in the
> rejection of PEP 555 in a way that's only obvious if you're Dutch.
>
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 08:04:25PM +0300, Koos Zevenhoven 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!
>>
>> You seem to be making a joke, but I have *no idea* what the joke is.
>>
>> Are you making fun of Guido's choice of preferred name? "time_ns"
>> instead of "time_nanoseconds" perhaps?
>>
>> Other than that, I cannot imagine what the joke is about. Sorry for
>> being so slow.
>>
>>
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>> Steve
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