[Python-Dev] strftime() (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Sun, 06 Aug 2000 12:34:34 -0500

[Jack Jansen] > The teststrftime regression test has been failing on the Mac for > ages, and I finally got round to investigating the problem: the > MetroWerks library returns the strings "am" and "pm" for %p but the > regression test expects "AM" and "PM". According to the comments in > the source of the library (long live vendors who provide it! Yeah!) > this is C9X compatibility.

My copy of a draft C99 std agrees (7.23.3.5) with MetroWerks on this point (i.e., that %p in the "C" locale becomes "am" or "pm"). > I can of course move the %p to the nonstandard expectations, but maybe > someone has a better idea? Not really. If Python thinks this function is valuable, it "should" offer a platform-independent implementation, but as nobody has time for that ...

No. The test is too strict. It should be fixed.

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