[Python-Dev] Drop the new time.wallclock() function?

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:03:42 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We may merge both functions with a flag to be able to disable the
> fallback. Example:
> 
>  - time.realtime(): best-effort monotonic, with a fallback
>  - time.realtime(monotonic=True): monotonic, may raise OSError or
> NotImplementedError

That's a rather awful name.  time.time() is *the* real time.

time.monotonic(fallback=False) would be a better API.

Regards

Antoine.