[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2012-04-03, at 8:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> 1) the os module should expose lightweight wrappers around whatever clocks the operating system provides;

+1.  That should make it flexible enough to those who really need it.

> 2) the time module should NOT provide any further clocks other than the existing time() and clock() functions (but see point 4 below);
> 
> 3) we postpone PEP 418 until there is some real-world experience with using the os clocks from Python and we can develop a consensus of what is actually needed rather than what people think we need (i.e. probably in 3.4);
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> 4) if the standard library has need for a "use the best clock available, for some definition of best, and fall back to time() if not" clock, then the time module should do the simplest thing that could possible work, flagged as a private function:

+1 on overall idea too.

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Yury