[Python-checkins] bpo-27741: Better wording for datetime.strptime() (GH-9994)

Victor Stinner webhook-mailer at python.org
Mon Oct 29 07:49:57 EDT 2018


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c0799ec973530ad2492bb1d6c7287ffc428f0348
commit: c0799ec973530ad2492bb1d6c7287ffc428f0348
branch: master
author: Gus Goulart <augusto at goulart.me>
committer: Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com>
date: 2018-10-29T12:49:52+01:00
summary:

bpo-27741: Better wording for datetime.strptime() (GH-9994)

files:
M Doc/library/datetime.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index a1a60b09cc19..0363111ef55f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -2016,7 +2016,9 @@ although not all objects support a :meth:`timetuple` method.
 Conversely, the :meth:`datetime.strptime` class method creates a
 :class:`.datetime` object from a string representing a date and time and a
 corresponding format string. ``datetime.strptime(date_string, format)`` is
-equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``.
+equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``, except
+when the format includes sub-second components or timezone offset information,
+which are supported in ``datetime.strptime`` but are discarded by ``time.strptime``.
 
 For :class:`.time` objects, the format codes for year, month, and day should not
 be used, as time objects have no such values.  If they're used anyway, ``1900``



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