timedelta problem

[Denis McMahon]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:23:02 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Denis McMahon
> <denismfmcmahon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:24:47 +0800, luofeiyu wrote:
>>
>> On further inspection, it seems that strptime() in 2.7 doesn't handle
>> %z at all. In 3.2, it ignores the value it gets, because there's no
>> practical way to select the "right" tz string from the offset.
> 
> I'm not sure when %z was added, but it's worth noting that it doesn't
> seem to be documented earlier than 3.3.

There may be some confusion because %z is in the table of strftime and 
strptime format chars on the 2.7.8 docs at

https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-
behavior

but I suspect it's only applicable to strftime in that release.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon at gmail.com