John Machin wrote: > AFAICT that was enough indication for most people to use time.clock on > all platforms ...
which was unfortunate, given that time.clock() isn't even a proper clock on most Unix systems; it's a low-resolution sample counter that can happily assign all time to a process that uses, say, 2% CPU and zero time to one that uses 98% CPU. > before the introduction of the timeit module; have you considered it? whether or not "timeit" suites his requirements, he can at least replace his code with clock = timeit.default_timer which returns a good wall-time clock (which happens to be time.time() on Unix and time.clock() on Windows). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list