On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> wrote: > Alexander Belopolsky proposed to use > time.time(format=datetime.datetime) instead.
Just to make sure my view is fully expressed: I am against adding flag arguments to time.time(). My preferred solution to exposing high resolution clocks is to do it in a separate module. You can even call the new function time() and access it as hirestime.time(). Longer names that reflect various time representation are also an option: hirestime.decimal_time(), hirestime.datetime_time() etc. The suggestion to use the actual type as a flag was motivated by the desire to require module import before fancy time.time() can be called. When you care about nanoseconds in your time stamps you won't tolerate an I/O delay between calling time() and getting the result. A separate module can solve this issue much better: simply import decimal or datetime or both at the top of the module. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
