On Tue, 10 May 2016 11:47 pm, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>
> wrote:
>> You are asking the player to hit enter at 10 seconds. *Exactly* ten
>> seconds. The computer can measure time to well under a millionth of a
>> second, I'm pretty sure that nobody, no matter how skillful, can be
>> expected to hit enter after exactly 10.000000 seconds, not 10.000001 or
>> 9.999999 seconds.
>>
>
> But the times were being calculated at one-second resolution, which
> solves that but raises its own issues.
Ah, I didn't realise that time.strftime("%S") was one-second resolution
(obvious in hindsight, duh!) and the call to time.time() is apparently
unused.
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Steven
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