Missing `time.time()` in Circuitpython 5.2.0

[walchko]

Hello, according to the documentation here, there is supposed to be a time.time() function like normal python. However, when I try to use this function it doesn't exist. It is probably just a documentation oversight. My output from the error and REPL is shown below:

code.py output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "code.py", line 37, in <module>
  File "code.py", line 17, in __init__
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'time'



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Adafruit CircuitPython 5.2.0 on 2020-04-09; Adafruit Trinket M0 with samd21e18
>>> import time
>>> time.time()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'time'
>>> dir(time)
['__name__', 'monotonic', 'sleep', 'struct_time']
>>> 

I am using a Trinket M0 and circuitpython 5.2.0.

[sommersoft]

This is mostly a documentation issue, as it doesn't address time.time()'s need for long integer support.

Boards with small capacities/internal filesystems like the Trinket M0 and Gemma M0, have long integer support turned off to save space.

[dhalbert]

I think it should be raising a NotImplementedError on non-longint builds.

[DavePutz]

@dhalbert - would you envision something like this?

>>> import time
>>> dir(time)
['__class__', '__name__', 'localtime', 'mktime', 'monotonic', 'monotonic_ns', 'sleep', 'struct_time', 'time']
>>> time.time()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NotImplementedError: No long integer support
>>> time.mktime('12:34')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NotImplementedError: No long integer support
>>> time.localtime("12:34")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NotImplementedError: No long integer support
>>> time.monotonic_ns()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NotImplementedError: No long integer support

[dhalbert]

Ideally, yes. The most space-saving way of doing this would be to have the implementations in time_module_globals_table[] all point to the same function that throws NotImplementedError, hwne there are no longints. The compiler might even do that merging automatically through optimization if they were broken out into separate but identical functions.

[dhalbert]

Re your push not working; try merging from upstream, then do a make translate, then push. Or if it's something else, could you show the error message here?

[theacodes]

This looks like it was resolved by #2871, so I'm going to close this. If that's not correct, feel free to reopen.