Where is time.strptime()?

[Alex Martelli]

<jschmitt at vmlabs.com> wrote in message news:8tvoed$cf5$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> I even looked for a 'time.py' in Python20\Lib and didn't find one.  Is
> it magic?

The time module is written in C...:

>>> import time
>>> type(time.time)
<type 'builtin_function_or_method'>
>>>

strptime is there if and only if it's supplied by the
runtime library of the C compiler used to build
Python (it's not a standard part of C, and Microsoft's
compiler in particular does not supply it).

There are portable implementations of strptime
on the net, e.g.

http://www.fukt.hk-r.se/~flognat/hacks/strptime.py

I think an alternate location for the same file is:

http://www.encrypted.net/~jh/python-wiki/moin.cgi/StrptimePy


Alex