[Tutor] string delimiters

[Cameron Simpson]

On 03Jun2015 14:16, Alex Kleider <akleider at sonic.net> 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?

No, they both come from the standard C library functions of the same names, 
being "(f)ormat a time as a string" and "(p)arse a time from a string". The 
shape of the name is because they're "str"ing related functions, hence the 
prefix.

See "man 3 strptime" and "man 3 strftime".

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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