outputting time in microseconds or milliseconds

[Alain Ketterlin]

matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com writes:

>    self.logfile.write('%s\t'%(str(time())))
[...]
> 2013-08-03	23:59:34	1375588774.89
[...]
> Why is it only giving me the centisecond precision? the docs say i
> should get microsecond precision with the code i put together.

Because of str()'s default format. Use "%f" % (time()) (and maybe vary
the precision).

-- Alain.

P/S: using str() + string formatting is kind of overkill: either use
string format directives like %f, or use str() with simple string
concatenation -- the latter giving less control.