Madhusudan Singh wrote: > time.time() seems to report (using %e to format the o/p) a fixed number of > the order ~1e9. you're confused. time.time() reports the wall time in fractional seconds since the epoch (usually jan 1, 1970). if you take the difference between two calls, you'll find that the resolution on a linux box is well over 100 kHz. </F>