Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #10278 -- why not just an attribute?

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Schemenauer
Jim J. Jewett wrote: > Passing strict as an argument seems like overkill since it will always > be meaningless on some (most?) platforms. A keyword argument that gets passed as a constant in the caller is usually poor API. Why not have two different functions? Neil __

Re: [Python-Dev] Issue #10278 -- why not just an attribute?

2012-03-20 Thread Victor Stinner
2012/3/20 Jim J. Jewett : > > > In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/117762.html > Georg Brandl posted: > >>> +   If available, a monotonic clock is used. By default, if *strict* is >>> False, >>> +   the function falls back to another clock if the monotonic clock failed >>>

[Python-Dev] Issue #10278 -- why not just an attribute?

2012-03-19 Thread Jim J. Jewett
In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-March/117762.html Georg Brandl posted: >> + If available, a monotonic clock is used. By default, if *strict* is >> False, >> + the function falls back to another clock if the monotonic clock failed >> or is >> + not available. If *stric