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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex b/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex index cae5d60..0d2b5bb 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex @@ -1421,19 +1421,21 @@ The exact range of years for which \method{strftime()} works also varies across platforms. Regardless of platform, years before 1900 cannot be used. -\subsection{Examples} - -\subsubsection{Creating Datetime Objects from Formatted Strings} - -The \class{datetime} class does not directly support parsing formatted time -strings. You can use \function{time.strptime} to do the parsing and create -a \class{datetime} object from the tuple it returns: - -\begin{verbatim} ->>> s = "2005-12-06T12:13:14" ->>> from datetime import datetime ->>> from time import strptime ->>> datetime(*strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6]) -datetime.datetime(2005, 12, 6, 12, 13, 14) -\end{verbatim} - +%%% This example is obsolete, since strptime is now supported by datetime. +% +% \subsection{Examples} +% +% \subsubsection{Creating Datetime Objects from Formatted Strings} +% +% The \class{datetime} class does not directly support parsing formatted time +% strings. You can use \function{time.strptime} to do the parsing and create +% a \class{datetime} object from the tuple it returns: +% +% \begin{verbatim} +% >>> s = "2005-12-06T12:13:14" +% >>> from datetime import datetime +% >>> from time import strptime +% >>> datetime(*strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6]) +% datetime.datetime(2005, 12, 6, 12, 13, 14) +% \end{verbatim} +% |