[Python-Dev] PEP: New timestamp formats

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Sat Feb 4 00:39:55 CET 2012


> 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


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