[New-bugs-announce] [issue38228] Missing documentation on strftime modifier O
Joan
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Sep 19 17:51:22 EDT 2019
New submission from Joan <aseques at gmail.com>:
In the documentation at https://docs.python.org/3.9/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior there's an omission of one of the modifiers that can be add to the strftime parameters (O and E)
Quoting from http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html
Some conversion specifications can be modified by preceding the
conversion specifier character by the E or O modifier to indicate
that an alternative format should be used. If the alternative format
or specification does not exist for the current locale, the behavior
will be as if the unmodified conversion specification were used. (SU)
The Single UNIX Specification mentions %Ec, %EC, %Ex, %EX, %Ey, %EY,
%Od, %Oe, %OH, %OI, %Om, %OM, %OS, %Ou, %OU, %OV, %Ow, %OW, %Oy,
where the effect of the O modifier is to use alternative numeric
symbols (say, roman numerals), and that of the E modifier is to use a
locale-dependent alternative representation.
The modifier works as expected for the O modifier returning the values defined in ab_alt_mon and alt_mon from the locale (instead of the ones defined in abmon and mon.
I haven't been able to get any results with the E modifier (might not be yet defined in any locale)
A small snippet of code to see the difference:
import locale
from datetime import datetime
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'ca_AD.utf8')
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'ca_ES.utf8')
now = datetime.now() # current date and time
date_time = now.strftime("|%Ob|%b|||%OB|%B|")
print("date and time:",date_time)
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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 352816
nosy: aseques, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Missing documentation on strftime modifier O
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.9
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