[Python-ideas] time.wallclock() or other similar stuff

[Michael Foord]

On 2 November 2010 22:17, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/11/2 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
> > You might want to look at the systimes.py module that comes with pybench
> > (see Tools/pybench). This already provides a cross-platform way of
> > accessing high accuracy timers for benchmarking and the like.
> >
> > For obvious reasons this tries to measure run-time, though, and not
> > elapsed time.
>
> I think MAL answered the naming question without even realising it:
>
> time.elapsed_time(start_time=0)
>


I'm +1 on the functionality and either elapsed_time or wallclock is fine
with me.

Perhaps the patch author should decide...

Michael



>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
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