[Python-Dev] PEP 418 is too divisive and confusing and should be postponed

Thu Apr 5 12:34:27 CEST 2012

2012年4月5日 PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>:
>> More details why it's hard to define such function and why I dropped
>> it from the PEP.
>>>> If someone wants to propose again such function ("monotonic or
>> fallback to system" clock), two issues should be solved:
>>>>  - name of the function
>>  - description of the function
>> Maybe I missed it, but did anyone ever give a reason why the fallback
> couldn't be to Steven D'Aprano's monotonic wrapper algorithm over the system
> clock?  (Given a suitable minimum delta.)  That function appeared to me to
> provide a sufficiently monotonic clock for timeout purposes, if nothing
> else.

Did you read the following section of the PEP?
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0418/#working-around-operating-system-bugs
Did I miss something? If yes, could you write a patch for the PEP please?
Victor