Parsing a string into a datetime object

[Mark.Petrovic]

Good day.

Might someone comment on why %f is not accepted as a valid field
directive in:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> created="2009-01-24 16:04:55.882788"
>>> dt = datetime.strptime(created,"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/
python2.5/_strptime.py", line 321, in strptime
    (bad_directive, format))
ValueError: 'f' is a bad directive in format '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f'

This is for Python 2.5.1 under OS X.

Thank you.