[New-bugs-announce] [issue26460] datetime.strptime without a year fails on Feb 29

[Sriram Rajagopalan]

New submission from Sriram Rajagopalan:

$ python
    Python 3.5.1 (default, Dec  7 2015, 12:58:09) 
    [GCC 5.2.0] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> import time
    >>> 
    >>> time.strptime("Feb 29", "%b %d")
    time.struct_time(tm_year=1900, tm_mon=2, tm_mday=29, tm_hour=0, tm_min=0, tm_sec=0, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=60, tm_isdst=-1)
    >>> 
    >>> 
    >>> import datetime
    >>> 
    >>> datetime.datetime.strptime("Feb 29", "%b %d")
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.5/_strptime.py", line 511, in _strptime_datetime
        return cls(*args)
    ValueError: day is out of range for month

The same issue is seen in all versions of Python

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 261014
nosy: Sriram Rajagopalan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: datetime.strptime without a year fails on Feb 29
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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