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| author | William Andrea <william.j.andrea@gmail.com> | 2023-04-24 18:54:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-04-24 18:54:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 2aa22f72fbbabb4ca2a641c0546d25c45128c56f (patch) | |
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gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant (#93365)
This removes a section of the `strftime` and `strptime` documentation that refers to a bygone era when `strftime` would return an encoded byte string.
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Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index ab8fed6..7889dd7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2510,10 +2510,7 @@ Notes: Because the format depends on the current locale, care should be taken when making assumptions about the output value. Field orderings will vary (for example, "month/day/year" versus "day/month/year"), and the output may - contain Unicode characters encoded using the locale's default encoding (for - example, if the current locale is ``ja_JP``, the default encoding could be - any one of ``eucJP``, ``SJIS``, or ``utf-8``; use :meth:`locale.getlocale` - to determine the current locale's encoding). + contain non-ASCII characters. (2) The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but |