On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:49:41 -0400
Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com wrote:
Accuracy:
Is the answer correct? Any clock will eventually drift; if a
clock is intended to match Civil Time, it will need to be adjusted
back to the true time.
You may also point to
By the way, I hesitate to add a new mandatory key to
time.get_clock_info() which indicates if the clock includes time
elapsed during a sleep. Is is_realtime a good name for such flag?
Examples:
time.get_clock_info('time')['is_realtime'] == True
time.get_clock_info('monotonic')['is_realtime'] ==
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Sent: 11. apríl 2012 23:10
I integrated a simplified version of your Glossary into the PEP. Some changes:
* a
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:49:43 -,
=?utf-8?B?S3Jpc3Rqw6FuIFZhbHVyIErDs25zc29u?= krist...@ccpgames.com wrote:
Wallclock: This definition is wrong no metter how the BDFL feels about the
word. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_clock_time.
I agree with the BDFL. I have always heard
I believe PEP 418 (or at least the discussion) would benefit greatly
from a glossary to encourage people to use the same definitions. This
is arguably the Definitions section, but it should move either near
the end or (preferably) ahead of the Functions. It also needs to be
greatly expanded.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com wrote:
Clock:
An instrument for measuring time. Different clocks have different
characteristics; for example, a clock with nanonsecond precision
Small typo. Otherwise, excellent reference document - thank you! Well
worth
A few comments, YMMV.
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com wrote:
Here is my strawman proposal, which does use slightly different
definitions than the current PEP even for some terms that the PEP does
define:
Accuracy:
Is the answer correct? Any clock will
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull step...@xemacs.org wrote:
Clock_Monotonic:
The characteristics expected of a monotonic clock in practice.
Whose practice? In C++, monotonic was defined as mathematically
monotonic, and rather than talk about what's expected of a
On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:49 AM, Jim Jewett wrote:
I believe PEP 418 (or at least the discussion) would benefit greatly
from a glossary to encourage people to use the same definitions.
This sort of information is a good candidate for the HOW-TO section
of the docs.
2012/4/11 Jim Jewett jimjjew...@gmail.com:
I believe PEP 418 (or at least the discussion) would benefit greatly
from a glossary to encourage people to use the same definitions. This
is arguably the Definitions section, but it should move either near
the end or (preferably) ahead of the
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