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bpo-27741: Better wording for datetime.strptime() (GH-9994)
(cherry picked from commit c0799ec973530ad2492bb1d6c7287ffc428f0348)
Co-authored-by: Gus Goulart <augusto@goulart.me>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index d2c1c56386..1e575d5d57 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -1594,7 +1594,9 @@ although not all objects support a :meth:`timetuple` method. Conversely, the :meth:`datetime.strptime` class method creates a :class:`.datetime` object from a string representing a date and time and a corresponding format string. ``datetime.strptime(date_string, format)`` is -equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``. +equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``, except +when the format includes sub-second components or timezone offset information, +which are supported in ``datetime.strptime`` but are discarded by ``time.strptime``. For :class:`.time` objects, the format codes for year, month, and day should not be used, as time objects have no such values. If they're used anyway, ``1900`` |