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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 09 May 2003 10:38:09 -0400


I got a single email from someone asking me to change the functionality so that it would raise an exception if part of the input string was not parsed.

That sounds like a good idea on the face of it. Or will this break existing code?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)