Module 'time' has no attribute 'clock'

[Sophie]

Hi everyone,

I'm posting here, in the hope that you may be able to help me.

I try to run a .py file with Spyder v 4.2.5.

When I try to run the file in spyder, it says :

file ~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\vpython\rate_control.py:24 in <module>_clock = time.clock
Module 'time' has no attribute 'clock'

And the program doesn't launch.

Any idea of what may cause this issue, please?

What I don't understand, is that I can run this file without problem on another computer.
On the 2 computers, I followed the same steps. I use python v3.8.
The only difference I noticed is that the computer on which the program is working has Spyder v 4.1.5, not 4.2.5.

Thanks a lot !

[Gribouillis]

There used to be a library function time.clock() in python 2. I'm afraid it does not exist any more in python 3. It was deprecated since 3.3 and it seems that it disapeared in 3.8.

[snippsat]

Use perf_counter() to get same result as would with removed .clock().

import time

def bar():
   time.sleep(5)

start = time.perf_counter()
bar()
stop = time.perf_counter() - start
print(f'Function bar did use {stop:.3f} sec to run')

Output:
Function bar did use 5.004 sec to run

[Gribouillis]

The problem is in the vpython package. I wonder how this vpython was installed in the site-packages directory for the wrong version of python.

[Sophie]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your answers.

[EDIT : Problem solved ]

So, finally I am able to make it work, pasting the code in Jupyter notebook.
So it must come from the Spyder version that I'm using.