From 6ccca69d0d313135b2fbb2aa92c69c315be779c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Zvorygin Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:42:10 -0700 Subject: gh-98378: Add small format string example to strftime comments (GH-98379) A small example of what a full date and time would look like would help a lot of developers who may not realize that they should investigate `time.h`'s `strftime`, run `man strftime`, or click through a series of docs on the python docs before they get to the actual [definition here](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes) which still doesn't have an obvious copy-pastable example of "what the heck format does this thing actually expect?". Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:rhettinger --- Lib/datetime.py | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/datetime.py b/Lib/datetime.py index 007114a..0174268 100644 --- a/Lib/datetime.py +++ b/Lib/datetime.py @@ -1033,7 +1033,11 @@ class date: self._day, self._year) def strftime(self, fmt): - "Format using strftime()." + """ + Format using strftime(). + + Example: "%d/%m/%Y, %H:%M:%S" + """ return _wrap_strftime(self, fmt, self.timetuple()) def __format__(self, fmt): -- cgit v0.12