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diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index 46d972a..cdc623d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -358,15 +358,17 @@ The module defines the following functions and data items: .. function:: strptime(string[, format]) - Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return value is - a :class:`struct_time` as returned by :func:`gmtime` or :func:`localtime`. + Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return value + is a :class:`struct_time` as returned by :func:`gmtime` or + :func:`localtime`. The *format* parameter uses the same directives as those used by :func:`strftime`; it defaults to ``"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y"`` which matches the - formatting returned by :func:`ctime`. If *string* cannot be parsed according to - *format*, or if it has excess data after parsing, :exc:`ValueError` is raised. - The default values used to fill in any missing data when more accurate values - cannot be inferred are ``(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1)``. + formatting returned by :func:`ctime`. If *string* cannot be parsed according + to *format*, or if it has excess data after parsing, :exc:`ValueError` is + raised. The default values used to fill in any missing data when more + accurate values cannot be inferred are ``(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1)``. + Both *string* and *format* must be strings. For example: |