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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex b/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex index cbda4c4..4bba553 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libdatetime.tex @@ -1419,3 +1419,20 @@ C standard added additional format codes. 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} + |