[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > How can I access partial seconds on the system clock? > > What is wrong with time.time()?
Absolutely nothing. > >>> import time > >>> time.time() > 1160578386.0109401 > >>> time.time() > 1160578386.87324 > >>> time.time() > 1160578387.5790291 > >>> x = time.time() > >>> y = time.time() > >>> z = y-x > >>> z > 4.6488111019134521 That was just what I needed. I was just ignorant, that's all. > The difference between x and y is the number of seconds between 'polling's of > the OS. There are some issues with precision. G5-fiwihex:~ eur$ python Python 2.3.5 (#1, Mar 20 2005, 20:38:20) [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1809)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import time >>> time.time() 1160580871.258379 >>> My G5 has lots of digits behind the decimal point, my measuring PC runs W98. We'll see how it does there. But I trust it to be enough digits. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
