time.strftime in 2.4.1 claims data out of range when not

[Kent Johnson]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Since the rules for handling missing, inconsistent, or out-of-range tuple fields
> are not defined, even that revision has some risk.  To future-proof the code,
> use strptime() to generate a well-formed time tuple:
> 
>>>>strptime('%d-%d-%d' % (y,m,d), '%Y-%m-%d')
> 
> (2005, 5, 15, 0, 0, 0, 6, 135, -1)
> 
>>>>strftime("%Y-%m-%d", _)
> 
> '2005-05-15'

or use datetime.date which only needs y, m, d:

  >>> from datetime import date
  >>> d=date(2005, 5, 15)
  >>> d.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
'2005-05-15'

Kent