time.timeout_clock? Everyone knows what that will be for and we won't have to make silly theoretical claims about its properties and expected uses. If no one else looks before I next get to a PC I'll dig up the clock/timing source used for select and friends, and find any corresponding syscall that retrieves it for Linux. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120329/d26a5f46/attachment.html>