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Add time.thread_time() #76206

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pitrou opened this issue Nov 14, 2017 · 9 comments
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Add time.thread_time() #76206

pitrou opened this issue Nov 14, 2017 · 9 comments
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3.7 (EOL) end of life type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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pitrou commented Nov 14, 2017

BPO 32025
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    pitrou commented Nov 14, 2017

    Currently, the time module has time.process_time(), a cross-platform function for getting per-process elapsed CPU time.

    Similarly, we could expose time.thread_time(), to get per-thread elapsed CPU time.
    On a modern POSIX platform, it can use clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID).
    On Windows, it can use GetThreadTimes(): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms683237%28VS.85%29.aspx
    On other platforms, it can simply raise NotImplementedError.

    Currently, you would need ctypes hacks to call GetThreadTimes(), which is not very nice.

    @pitrou pitrou added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir 3.7 (EOL) end of life type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Nov 14, 2017
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    On other platforms, it can simply raise NotImplementedError.

    Would it be possible to not provide the function if it's not supported by a platform?

    Do you know platforms which don't support time.thread_time()?

    Do you want to add time.thread_time_ns() with nanosecond resolution (PEP-564) ? I suggest to add it to be consistent with time.process_time().

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    It seems like macOS doesn't implement CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID but provides thread_info() which can be used by suming user and system times.

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    pitrou commented Nov 15, 2017

    Le 15/11/2017 à 02:48, STINNER Victor a écrit :

    Would it be possible to not provide the function if it's not supported by a platform?

    Probably, yes.

    Do you know platforms which don't support time.thread_time()?

    Any POSIX platform which doesn't have CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID? It's an
    optional feature in the POSIX spec.

    Do you want to add time.thread_time_ns() with nanosecond resolution (PEP-564) ?

    Yes, I think so.

    It seems like macOS doesn't implement CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID but
    provides thread_info() which can be used by suming user and system times.

    I don't have a macOS machine to test on, though :-)

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    I can work on the macOS implementation, once your PR will be merged.

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    pitrou commented Nov 15, 2017

    Le 15/11/2017 à 22:06, STINNER Victor a écrit :

    I can work on the macOS implementation, once your PR will be merged.

    Great!

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    pitrou commented Nov 15, 2017

    New changeset 4bd41c9 by Antoine Pitrou in branch 'master':
    bpo-32025: Add time.thread_time() (bpo-4410)
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    pitrou commented Nov 16, 2017

    Should I leave this open for you to work on the macOS implementation, Victor?

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    I opened bpo-32093 for macOS. I close this one.

    Nice enhancement, I already like this new clock ;-)

    @vstinner vstinner removed the stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir label Nov 20, 2017
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