[Python-ideas] Add time.time_ns(): system clock with nanosecond resolution

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 16 11:12:14 EDT 2017


Sorry about your frustration. I should not have given you hope about PEP
555 -- it was never going to make it, so I should just have spared you the
effort. Do you want to withdraw it or do I have to actually reject it?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, that's an in-joke. Koos is expressing his disappointment in the
>> rejection of PEP 555 in a way that's only obvious if you're Dutch.
>>
>>
> Hmm, or more accurately, it has to do with me going crazy because of the
> frustration of how the PEP 555 discussions went. We could have arrived at
> the same conclusion [*] in much less time and with less pulling one's hair
> out.
>
> But this discrepancy probably comes from the fact that we're not dealing
> with the most pure kind of being Dutch here.
>
> —Koos
>
> ​[*] Although right now different people still have slightly different
> ideas about what that conclusion is.  ​
>
>
>
>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 08:04:25PM +0300, Koos Zevenhoven wrote:
>>> > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > I'd like to have time.time_ns() -- this is most parallel to
>>> st_mtime_ns.
>>> > >
>>> > > ​
>>> > Welcome to the list Guido! You sound like a C programmer. For many
>>> people,
>>> > that was the best language they knew of when they learned to program.
>>> But
>>> > have you ever tried Python? You should give it a try!
>>>
>>> You seem to be making a joke, but I have *no idea* what the joke is.
>>>
>>> Are you making fun of Guido's choice of preferred name? "time_ns"
>>> instead of "time_nanoseconds" perhaps?
>>>
>>> Other than that, I cannot imagine what the joke is about. Sorry for
>>> being so slow.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve
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