>time.strftime %T missing in 2.3

Andy Leszczynski leszczynscyATnospam.yahoo.com.nospam
Fri Aug 5 02:02:48 EDT 2005


Robert Kern wrote:
> Andy Leszczynski wrote:
> 
>> Python 2.2/Unix
>>
>>  >>time.strftime("%T")
>> '22:12:15'
>>  >>time.strftime("%X")
>> '22:12:17'
>>
>> Python 2.3/Windows
>>
>>  >>time.strftime("%X")
>> '22:12:47'
>>  >> time.strftime("%T")
>> ''
> 
> 
>  From http://docs.python.org/lib/node252.html
> 
> """The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, 
> because Python calls the platform C library's strftime() function, and 
> platform variations are common."""
> 
> So I suggest that it's a platform issue, not a Python version issue. FWIW:
> 
> Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 31 2005, 00:05:10)
> [GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>  >>> import time
>  >>> time.strftime("%T")
> '22:50:49'
>  >>> time.strftime("%X")
> '22:50:59'
> 

I accept that, but still pain. Took me a while to filter out the problem 
in the code running on the Unix and not on M$.

A.



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