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NAME
    monotonic

DESCRIPTION
    monotonic
    ~~~~~~~~~

    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:

    +-------------+----------------------------------------+
    | 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() -> float

        Monotonic clock, cannot go backward.

DATA
    __all__ = ('monotonic',)

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