time.clock() in unix

[MaxLindquist]

I wanna make a stopwatch. I did this on windows and it worked perfectly. When then used the same program on Unix it didn't work. I have checked in the pythonlibrary, but i can't find anything.

This is my simple code:

import time

t1=time.clock()

g=raw_input("Wait a sec and press enter")

t2=time.clock()

print t2-t1

Why does this work on windows, but not on Unix?

Thanks!

[bartonc]

clock( )
On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of ``processor time'', depends on that of the C function of the same name, but in any case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms.

On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function QueryPerformanc eCounter(). The resolution is typically better than one microsecond.