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| author | Abhishek Kumar Singh <toanant@users.noreply.github.com> | 2019-05-18 20:36:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Cheryl Sabella <cheryl.sabella@gmail.com> | 2019-05-18 20:36:19 (GMT) |
| commit | 56027ccd6b9dab4a090e4fef8574933fb9a36ff2 (patch) | |
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bpo-19376: Added doc mentioning `datetime.strptime()` without a year fails for Feb 29. (GH-10243)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index abdc977..3c45e56 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2048,6 +2048,9 @@ For :class:`date` objects, the format codes for hours, minutes, seconds, and microseconds should not be used, as :class:`date` objects have no such values. If they're used anyway, ``0`` is substituted for them. +For the :meth:`datetime.strptime` class method, the default value is ``1900-01-01T00:00:00.000``: +any components not specified in the format string will be pulled from the default value. [#]_ + The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python calls the platform C library's :func:`strftime` function, and platform variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your @@ -2282,3 +2285,4 @@ Notes: .. rubric:: Footnotes .. [#] If, that is, we ignore the effects of Relativity +.. [#] Passing ``datetime.strptime('Feb 29', '%b %d')`` will fail since ``1900`` is not a leap year. |