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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libtime.tex | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex index 81d1352..6a789dd 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex @@ -73,7 +73,6 @@ nonzero fraction (\UNIX{} \cfunction{select()} is used to implement this, where available). \item - The time tuple as returned by \function{gmtime()}, \function{localtime()}, and \function{strptime()}, and accepted by \function{asctime()}, \function{mktime()} and \function{strftime()}, @@ -97,6 +96,10 @@ under ``Year 2000 (Y2K) issues'' above. A \code{-1} argument as daylight savings flag, passed to \function{mktime()} will usually result in the correct daylight savings state to be filled in. +When a tuple with an incorrect length is passed to a function +expecting a time tuple, or having elements of the wrong type, a +\exception{TypeError} is raised. + \end{itemize} The module defines the following functions and data items: @@ -174,7 +177,9 @@ is the full 9-tuple (since the dst flag is needed; use \code{-1} as the dst flag if it is unknown) which expresses the time in \emph{local} time, not UTC. It returns a floating point number, for compatibility with \function{time()}. If the input value cannot be -represented as a valid time, \exception{OverflowError} is raised. The +represented as a valid time, either \exception{OverflowError} or +\exception{ValueError} will be raised (which depends on whether the +invalid value is caught by Python or the underlying C libraries). The earliest date for which it can generate a time is platform-dependent. \end{funcdesc} |