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| author | Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> | 2011-05-02 17:14:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> | 2011-05-02 17:14:24 (GMT) |
| commit | 89da349b7be56000e4b0efbe11ec4958af691b42 (patch) | |
| tree | 0f6a529fb790429d25c0eb73c7c66c8836642dc3 /Doc/library/datetime.rst | |
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Issue #11930: Remove year >= 1000 limitation from datetime.strftime.
Patch by Victor Stinner.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index c637f6a..2eb5ea0 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1750,8 +1750,7 @@ format codes. | | decimal number [00,99]. | | +-----------+--------------------------------+-------+ | ``%Y`` | Year with century as a decimal | \(5) | -| | number [0001,9999] (strptime), | | -| | [1000,9999] (strftime). | | +| | number [0001,9999]. | | +-----------+--------------------------------+-------+ | ``%z`` | UTC offset in the form +HHMM | \(6) | | | or -HHMM (empty string if the | | @@ -1785,10 +1784,7 @@ Notes: calculations when the day of the week and the year are specified. (5) - For technical reasons, :meth:`strftime` method does not support - dates before year 1000: ``t.strftime(format)`` will raise a - :exc:`ValueError` when ``t.year < 1000`` even if ``format`` does - not contain ``%Y`` directive. The :meth:`strptime` method can + The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but years < 1000 must be zero-filled to 4-digit width. |