[Pythonmac-SIG] time.clock() and profile

[Jack Jansen]

On 13-feb-04, at 1:18, Samuel M. Smith wrote:

> Is time.clock() in the time module broken on Python 2.3 Mac OSX 10.3.2
>
> It seems to give out very slowly changing times. As in minutes to 
> change anything.

Note that time.clock() does not return realtime (use time.time() for 
that), it returns
CPU seconds used by the current process. So if you type time.clock(), 
then do nothing
for three days, then type time.clock() again the two values should be 
almost the same.
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