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

[Victor Stinner]

> Does this mean that there are circumstances where monotonic will work for a
> while, but then fail?

No. time.monotonic() always work or always fail. If monotonic()
failed, steady() doesn't call it again.

> Otherwise, we would only need to check monotonic once, when the time module
> is first loaded, rather than every time it is called. Instead of the above:
>
> # global to the time module
> try:
>    monotonic()
> except (NameError, OSError):
>    steady = time
> else:
>    steady = monotonic

I implemented steady differently to avoid the need of calling
monotonic at Python startup. Calling monotonic at startup would be an
extra useless system call.

Victor