> The granularity of time.time can be quite large, maybe as much > as 1 second in some systems. Also, if the user can set the time, > the output might not be monotone. They might set the clock backwards > if it has drifted ahead, or something like that. Better to use an > explicit counter if you need a monotonically increasing sequence.
It's not the granularity, after all it works without the single CreateDevice. With the line uncommented the value doesn't even change after 2 minutes. I am not sure what you mean with explicit counter. I think I would still need to get some time delta to accumulate. However, time.time() - time.time() will always be 0 for obvious reasons. I agree it would probably be better to use time.clock() and an explicit counter to prevent time wrapping issues. Nevertheless time.time() shouldn't fail here unless DirectX is really badly tinkering with my system. Thanks for your answer, -Matthias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list