On 2 November 2010 22:17, Nick Coghlan
<ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
2010/11/2 M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>:
> You might want to look at the systimes.py module that comes with pybench
> (see Tools/pybench). This already provides a cross-platform way of
> accessing high accuracy timers for benchmarking and the like.
>
> For obvious reasons this tries to measure run-time, though, and not
> elapsed time.
I think MAL answered the naming question without even realising it:
time.elapsed_time(start_time=0)
I'm +1 on the functionality and either elapsed_time or wallclock is fine with me.
Perhaps the patch author should decide...
Michael
Cheers,
Nick.
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