On 13Mar2012 17:27, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
| I think wallclock() is an awkward name; in other contexts I've seen
| "wall clock time" used to mean the time that a clock on the wall would
| show, i.e. local time. This matches definition #1 of
| http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/wall-time.html (while yours matches
| #2 :-).

I think this also. A "wallclock()" function that did not return real world
elapsed time seconds would be misleading or at least disconcerting.

| Maybe it could be called realtime()?

"elapsedtime()?" It is getting a bit long though.

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