title: High-precision clock in Python
body: <p>Is there a way to measure time with high-precision in Python --- more precise than one second?  I doubt that there is a cross-platform way of doing that; I'm interesting in high precision time on Unix, particularly Solaris running on a Sun SPARC machine.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.python.org/library/timeit.html" rel="noreferrer">timeit</a> seems to be capable of high-precision time measurement, but rather than measure how long a code snippet takes, I'd like to directly access the time values. </p>