From c83fc9c02c9846ec3a2d0123999c98e02f00b3f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:05:51 -0800 Subject: bpo-31327: Update time documentation to reflect possible errors (GH-31460) As per the comments, this mirrors the [datetime documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp). ``` >>> import time >>> time.localtime(999999999999999999999) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in OverflowError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t >>> time.localtime(-3600) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument ``` --- Doc/library/time.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index d524f4f..be17fa6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -257,6 +257,12 @@ Functions :const:`None`, the current time as returned by :func:`.time` is used. The dst flag is set to ``1`` when DST applies to the given time. + :func:`localtime` may raise :exc:`OverflowError`, if the timestamp is + outside the range of values supported by the platform C :c:func:`localtime` + or :c:func:`gmtime` functions, and :exc:`OSError` on :c:func:`localtime` or + :c:func:`gmtime` failure. It's common for this to be restricted to years + between 1970 and 2038. + .. function:: mktime(t) -- cgit v0.12