[Python-Dev] Rename time.steady(strict=True) to time.monotonic()?

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 00:36:31 CET 2012


> This seems like it should have been a PEP, or maybe should become a PEP.

I replaced time.wallclock() by time.steady(strict=False) and
time.monotonic() by time.steady(strict=True). This change solved the
naming issue of time.wallclock(), but it was a bad idea to merge
monotonic() feature into time.steady(). It looks like everybody
agrees, am I wrong?

Victor


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