On 02/11/2010 13:21, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
On 2 November 2010 11:35, Antoine Pitrousolipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:50:57 +1100 Steven D'Apranosteve@pearwood.info wrote:
+1 on a platform-dependent alias to time() or clock() +1 on calling it "timer"
"time.timer()" is much too close to "time.time()".
I'd agree with this. I'm actually +1 on the original time.wallclock(), wall time is a common concept, so having the word "wall" in it's api seems very natural to me. .walltime() would probably work as well.
Regards Floris
I beg to differ. Seeing "wall clock" just confused me - my reaction was what the ..... is he talking about? Even when I understood it, it didn't seem a very appropriate name - I would have found something like "system clock" or "system time" more intelligible. Whereas "timer" is a very familiar concept (in computing, and in life in general). And I think most people are familiar with time.time(), so will recognize that time.timer() is something different. Though I agree it would be better if the names were more different. Best wishes Rob Cliffe