backports.time-perf-counter 0.0.4

Usage

I recommend not introducing a dependency on this package under Pythons which provide time.perf_counter(). In your package’s setup.py:

import setuptools
setuptools.setup(
    install_requires=[
        'backports.time_perf_counter; python_version < "3.3"'
    ]
)

In the module that relies on perf_counter():

try:
    # Python >= 3.3
    from time import perf_counter
except ImportError:
    # Python < 3.3
    from backports.time_perf_counter import perf_counter

Tests

This package’s tests use the builtin unittest and can be run without first installing the package:

python setup.py test

The test cases are based on tests from the Python standard library’s time module that exercise time.perf_counter(). There are an admittedly small number of tests; pull requests with more tests are welcome.

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