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diff --git a/python/monotonic/README b/python/monotonic/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4c50133d3cb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/python/monotonic/README @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +This module provides a monotonic() function which returns the value (in +fractional seconds) of a clock which never goes backwards. + +On Python 3.3 or newer, monotonic will be an alias of time.monotonic from the +standard library. On older versions, it will fall back to an equivalent +Linux implementation: clock_gettime. + +If no suitable implementation exists for the current platform, attempting to +import this module (or to import from it) will cause a RuntimeError exception +to be raised. |