[Python-Dev] Broken strptime in Python 2.3a1 & CVS (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:40:46 -0500

[Brett Cannon, on folding strptime into datetime]

Well, I would assume the responsibility of maintaining it would fall on my shoulders. But leaving it out is fine with me.

I also maintain a pure-Python version of datetime.py (for Zope's use). date/time modules are a bottomless pit.

... Also, is there any desire for the C wrapper

The C wrapper for what?

to do any checking of the values so we can change the docs and guarantee that any value returned by time.strptime() will have valid values?

I think we should lose the C version of strptime and use _strptime.py everywhere now -- allowing x-platform accidents to sneak thru is un-Pythonic (unless they're valuable x-platform accidents -- strptime accidents are random crap).