> I need a function returning a time value with a higher resolution that the > standard 1sec unix timestamp. I found the clock() function in the time > module, but that seems to return the same value (in the Python shell) each > time I call it (Debian Linux speaking here).
Standard unix is a millisecond. And time.time() actually delivers a float with sub-second precision. ------------ import time t = time.time() time.sleep(.25) print time.time() - t ------------ gives for me (also debian) 0.249767065048 secs. -- Regards, Diez B. Roggisch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list