[Python-ideas] time.wallclock() or other similar stuff

Tue Nov 2 23:17:26 CET 2010

2010年11月2日 M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com>:
> You might want to look at the systimes.py module that comes with pybench
> (see Tools/pybench). This already provides a cross-platform way of
> accessing high accuracy timers for benchmarking and the like.
>> For obvious reasons this tries to measure run-time, though, and not
> elapsed time.

I think MAL answered the naming question without even realising it:
time.elapsed_time(start_time=0)
Cheers,
Nick.
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