[Python-Dev] PEP: New timestamp formats

[Victor Stinner]

> consider changing the default on any of these that return a time
> value. these for example:
>  * time.clock_gettime()
>  * time.wallclock() (reuse time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC))

Ah. Nanosecond resolution is overkill is common cases, float is enough
and is faster. I prefer to use the same type (float) by default for
all functions creating timestamps.

Victor