[Python-Dev] PEP 418: Add monotonic clock

Matt Joiner anacrolix at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 20:18:29 CEST 2012


> I renamed time.steady() to time.try_monotonic() in the PEP. It's a
> temporary name until we decide what to do with this function.

How about get rid of it?

Also monotonic should either not exist if it's not available, or always
guarantee a (artificially) monotonic value. Finding out that something is
already known to not work shouldn't require a call and a faked OSError.
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