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diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 1ee23c2175..00cfaeb66f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2031,6 +2031,9 @@ For :class:`date` objects, the format codes for hours, minutes, seconds, and microseconds should not be used, as :class:`date` objects have no such values. If they're used anyway, ``0`` is substituted for them. +For the :meth:`datetime.strptime` class method, the default value is ``1900-01-01T00:00:00.000``: +any components not specified in the format string will be pulled from the default value. [#]_ + The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python calls the platform C library's :func:`strftime` function, and platform variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your @@ -2265,3 +2268,4 @@ Notes: .. rubric:: Footnotes .. [#] If, that is, we ignore the effects of Relativity +.. [#] Passing ``datetime.strptime('Feb 29', '%b %d')`` will fail since ``1900`` is not a leap year. |