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

[MRAB]

On 03/11/2010 02:41, Michael Foord wrote:
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> On 2 November 2010 22:17, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com
> <mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     2010/11/2 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com <mailto: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.
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>      > For obvious reasons this tries to measure run-time, though, and not
>      > elapsed time.
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>     I think MAL answered the naming question without even realising it:
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>     time.elapsed_time(start_time=0)
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> I'm +1 on the functionality and either elapsed_time or wallclock is fine
> with me.
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> Perhaps the patch author should decide...
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And deprive us of the chance to bikeshed? :-)