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📛 NAME

monotonic

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
Get monotonic time	monotonic()	Returns fractional seconds from a clock that never goes backward
Import the module	import monotonic	On Python 3.3+ it aliases time.monotonic, otherwise falls back to platform-specific implementations

📖 DESCRIPTION

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 implementation:

Platform	Mechanism
Linux, BSD 🐧	clock_gettime(3)
Windows 🪟	GetTickCount or GetTickCount64
OS X 🍎	mach_absolute_time

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.

Copyright 2014, 2015, 2016 Ori Livneh <ori AT wikimedia.org>

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

🔧 FUNCTIONS

monotonic(...)

• monotonic(...) — monotonic() -> float. Monotonic clock, cannot go backward.

📦 DATA

__all__ = ('monotonic',)

📁 FILE

/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/monotonic.py

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