README.md

PyTiming

Description:

Create some low-level Arduino-like millis() & delay() (for milliseconds) and micros() and delayMicroseconds() (for microseconds) timing functions for Python.

Compatible with Python in both Windows and Linux. Has ultra-great resolution timestamps (sub-microsecond), even in older versions of Python 3 which don't natively support (in the time module, for instance) high resolutions like this.

Author:

Gabriel Staples
www.ElectricRCAircraftGuy.com
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Website:

http://www.electricrcaircraftguy.com/2016/07/arduino-like-millisecond-and-microsecond-timestamps-in-python.html

My other timing libraries and code:

1. For anyone looking for a precision timing library on Linux in C or C++, see my library here. It is one of my best works yet, as of June 2022:
   1. timinglib.h
   2. timinglib.c
   3. Demos:
      1. timinglib_get_resolution.c
      2. timinglib_pthread_periodic_loop.c
      3. timinglib_sleep_and_sleep_until.c
      4. timinglib_timestamps_basic.c
      5. timinglib_timestamps_rapid.c
2. My 3 sets of timestamp functions (cross-linked to each other):
   1. For C timestamps, see my answer here: Get a timestamp in C in microseconds?
   2. For C++ high-resolution timestamps, see my answer here: Here is how to get simple C-like millisecond, microsecond, and nanosecond timestamps in C++
   3. For Python high-resolution timestamps, see my answer here: How can I get millisecond and microsecond-resolution timestamps in Python?

History:

(newest on top)

• 20160907 - v0.2.1 created - updated delay functions to use modulus operator to guarantee proper C uint32_t-like underflow subtraction behavior when the timer rolls over
• 20160813 - v0.2.0 created - added Linux capability
• 20160711 - v0.1.0 created - functions for Windows only (via the QPC timer)