[Python-Dev] [RFC] PEP 418: Add monotonic time, performance counter and process time functions

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Sat Apr 28 09:40:30 CEST 2012


> Surely those are all very minor quibbles. I have one myself: at some
> point it says:
>
>    On Linux, it is possible to use time.clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID).
>
> But the PEP doesn't define a function by that name. Is it an editing
> glitch? (Some of the pseudo code also uses this.)

It is this function:
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/time.html#time.clock_gettime

It's just a binding of the C function clock_gettime(). Should the PEP
describe all functions used by the PEP?

Victor


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