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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 7a9f93c..f82f425 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -759,13 +759,19 @@ Other constructors, all class methods: :attr:`tzinfo` ``None``. This may raise :exc:`OverflowError`, if the timestamp is out of the range of values supported by the platform C :c:func:`gmtime` function, and :exc:`OSError` on :c:func:`gmtime` failure. - It's common for this to be restricted to years in 1970 through 2038. See also - :meth:`fromtimestamp`. + It's common for this to be restricted to years in 1970 through 2038. + + To get an aware :class:`.datetime` object, call :meth:`fromtimestamp`:: + + datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, timezone.utc) + + On the POSIX compliant platforms, it is equivalent to the following + expression:: - On the POSIX compliant platforms, ``utcfromtimestamp(timestamp)`` - is equivalent to the following expression:: + datetime(1970, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc) + timedelta(seconds=timestamp) - datetime(1970, 1, 1) + timedelta(seconds=timestamp) + except the latter formula always supports the full years range: between + :const:`MINYEAR` and :const:`MAXYEAR` inclusive. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 Raise :exc:`OverflowError` instead of :exc:`ValueError` if the timestamp |