[Tutor] string delimiters

[Alan Gauld]

On 03/06/15 22:16, Alex Kleider wrote:
> On 2015-06-03 12:53, Alan Gauld wrote:
> ...
>> If this is really about parsing dates and times have
>> you looked at the datetime module and its parsing/formatting
>> functions (ie strptime/strftime)?
>
> I asssume strftime gets its name from 'string from time.'
> What about strptime? How did that get its name?

f = format - for creating date/time strings
p = parse - for extracting date/time fierlds from a string

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