[M.-A. Lemburg] > It may actually be better to use the win32process API > GetProcessTimes() directly: >> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/pywin32/win32process__GetProcessTimes_meth.html > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/getprocesstimes.asp >> provided the win32 package is installed. >> This would be more in line with what time.clock() returns > on Unix platforms, namely the process time... I wonder why > time.clock() doesn't use this API on Windows. GetProcessTimes() is a relatively new addition to the Win32 API. Doesn't exist in any version of 9X/ME. Does exist in XP. May or may not exist in Win2K (docs say it exists in Win2K Pro and Win2K Server; they don't claim it exists in plain Win2K).