[Python-Dev] Rename time.steady(strict=True) to time.monotonic()?

Sat Mar 24 03:36:30 CET 2012

In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/118024.html
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> What makes this "steady", given that it can be adjusted
> and it can go backwards?

It is best-effort for steady, but putting "best" in the name would
be an attractive nuisance.
> Is steady() merely a convenience function to avoid the user
> having to write something like this?

> try:
> mytimer = time.monotonic
> except AttributeError:
> mytimer = time.time

That would still be worth doing. But I think the main point is
that the clock *should* be monotonic, and *should* be as precise
as possible.
Given that it returns seconds elapsed (since an undefined start),
perhaps it should be
 time.seconds()
or even
 time.counter()
-jJ
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