[issue22840] strpdate('20141110', '%Y%m%d%H%S') returns wrong date

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky added the comment:

After reading the standard a few more times, I agree with Brett and Ethan that this is at most a call for better documentation.

I'll leave this open for a chance that someone will come up with a succinct description of what exactly datetime.strptime does. (Maybe we should just document the format to regexp translation implemented in _strptime.py.)

We may also include POSIX's directive "The application shall ensure that there is white-space or other non-alphanumeric characters between any two conversion specifications" as a recommendation.

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assignee:  -> belopolsky
components: +Documentation -Library (Lib)
type: behavior -> enhancement
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4

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