the units in which their value or argument is expressed. E.g. on most Unix
systems, the clock "ticks" only 50 or 100 times a second.
-* On the other hand, the precision of :func:`time` and :func:`sleep` is better
+* On the other hand, the precision of :func:`.time` and :func:`sleep` is better
than their Unix equivalents: times are expressed as floating point numbers,
- :func:`time` returns the most accurate time available (using Unix
+ :func:`.time` returns the most accurate time available (using Unix
:c:func:`gettimeofday` where available), and :func:`sleep` will accept a time
with a nonzero fraction (Unix :c:func:`select` is used to implement this, where
available).
Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a string representing
local time. If *secs* is not provided or :const:`None`, the current time as
- returned by :func:`time` is used. ``ctime(secs)`` is equivalent to
+ returned by :func:`.time` is used. ``ctime(secs)`` is equivalent to
``asctime(localtime(secs))``. Locale information is not used by :func:`ctime`.
Convert a time expressed in seconds since the epoch to a :class:`struct_time` in
UTC in which the dst flag is always zero. If *secs* is not provided or
- :const:`None`, the current time as returned by :func:`time` is used. Fractions
+ :const:`None`, the current time as returned by :func:`.time` is used. Fractions
of a second are ignored. See above for a description of the
:class:`struct_time` object. See :func:`calendar.timegm` for the inverse of this
function.
.. function:: localtime([secs])
Like :func:`gmtime` but converts to local time. If *secs* is not provided or
- :const:`None`, the current time as returned by :func:`time` is used. The dst
+ :const:`None`, the current time as returned by :func:`.time` is used. The dst
flag is set to ``1`` when DST applies to the given time.
This is the inverse function of :func:`localtime`. Its argument is the
:class:`struct_time` or full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use ``-1``
as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in *local* time, not
- UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with :func:`time`.
+ UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with :func:`.time`.
If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either
:exc:`OverflowError` or :exc:`ValueError` will be raised (which depends on
whether the invalid value is caught by Python or the underlying C libraries).