[issue11457] Expose nanosecond precision from system calls

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> I suggest that rather than using composite time stamps, decimal.Decimal is used to represent high-precision time in Python.

I support this idea in theory, but as long as decimal is implemented
in Python, os module should probably expose a low level (tuple-based?)
interface and a higher level module would provide Decimal-based
high-precision time.

BTW, what is the status of cdecimal?

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