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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:32:22 -0700
Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
> Steven D'Aprano's synthetic clock is able to partially avoid that 
> situation -- worst case is a timeout of double what you asked for -- so 
> 10 seconds instead of 5 (which is much better than 3600!).

The remaining issue is that the clock is not system-wide, it's
interpreter-specific.

Regards

Antoine.