[Python-Dev] Make _strptime only time.strptime implementation? (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Fri, 9 May 2003 06:30:45 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Tim Peters wrote:

As we left it, we were going to wait for the 2.3 alpha and beta testers to raise a stink if the new implementation didn't work out for them (you'll recall that the call to the platform strptime() is disabled in 2.3b1, via an unconditional

#undef HAVESTRPTIME in timemodule.c). Nobody has even cut a little gas yet, so I'd proceed under the assumption that nobody will, and that the disable HAVESTRTIME code will be physically deleted. If that turns out to be wrong, big deal, you stay up all night fixing it under intense pressure .

Actually, I did, and on python-dev. strptime did not roundtrip correctly with mktime on Linux. This made my application very unhappy, so I removed all calls to strptime. Right now I don't have a vested interest in shooting holes in the Python strptime, but I can't say I feel any warm fuzzies about it. It seems hard to imagine that others will not run into similar problems, regardless of the lack of specification for exactly how strptime aught to work.

-Kevin

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