[New-bugs-announce] [issue17701] Improving strftime documentation

[David Wolever]

New submission from David Wolever:

The current strftime documentation isn't very helpful. It doesn't have examples, and the ordering is unhelpful.

I've also moved some format-specific notes into the notes below the format-string-table, because the format string table is what 98%* of people care about.

TODO before this can be merged:
- Clean up note order
- Check that it works with the Python 3 docs

*: based on a sample size of 1

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
files: strftime-docs.diff
keywords: needs review, patch
messages: 186601
nosy: docs at python, wolever
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Improving strftime documentation
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29784/strftime-docs.diff

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