Re: [Pysdl-devel] Timing issues...

[Mark B. <mb...@0x...>]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Michal Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Mark Baker wrote:
>  
> > It's definitely better than placing the cross-platform nonsense onto
> > the user of PySDL. It's not so much a big technical deal, so much as
> > a philisophical one.  I believe that we shouldn't *need* to have
> > multiple functions, but if SDL will offer us platform consistancy
> > where Python won't, then we'll just have to go that way ;-) It's
> > only two functions, so it's not exactly the end of the world.
> 
> 
> Maybe pySDL ought to be submitted to the python distribution?
> Then time could just wrap the SDL functions.. ?

SDL_GetTicks(), while having more or less the same use for a game as
time.time() would, doesn't actually do the same thing. This would make it an
inappropriate replacement, as-is. Of course using similar techniques to achieve
relatively similar multiplatform accuracy in the time module, as SDL uses,
might not be entirely out of the question.