[Python-Dev] User's complaints (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Wed Jul 12 13:13:47 CEST 2006 

>> Python 2.3:
>> 
>> >>> import time
>> >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", (2005, 6, 4) + (0,)*6)
>> '2005-06-04'

Martin> Is there any specific reason you couldn't write

Martin> "%d-%02d-%02d" % (2005, 6, 4)

Martin> (i.e. not use strftime at all)?

Sure, but that was just me being lazy typing at the interactive prompt. %Y-%m-%d is just about the only date format I can ever remember without consulting the strftime(3) man page. ;-) Suppose I had used

>>> time.strftime("%b %d, %Y", (2005, 6, 4) + (1,)*6)
'Jun 04, 2005'

instead (switching to the all-ones default that still works)?

Martin> So this was changed in response to a bug report about a crash.

Yeah, but it broke common (at the time) usage.

Skip

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