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author | Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> | 2011-01-10 23:31:51 (GMT) |
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committer | Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky@gmail.com> | 2011-01-10 23:31:51 (GMT) |
commit | 5fc850b45528dc052a4dd3cd52d9572ecb187452 (patch) | |
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Improved footnote for the %Y directive slightly.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 4ed1e01..de9ad44 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1770,11 +1770,11 @@ Notes: (5) For technical reasons, :meth:`strftime` method does not support - dates with year < 1000: ``t.strftime(format)`` will raise a - :exc:`ValueError` even if ``format`` does not contain ``%Y`` - directive. The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full - [1, 9999] range, but years < 1000 must be zero-filled to 4-digit - width. + 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 + parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but years < 1000 must be + zero-filled to 4-digit width. .. versionchanged:: 3.2 In previous versions, :meth:`strftime` method was restricted to |