[issue8913] Document that datetime.__format__ is datetime.strftime

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

I don't find it odd at all that you use datetime-specific formats instead of integral formats to get numbers out of a datetime object; they are totally different things. And one of the reasons for __format__ support is to have DSLs such as the one for datetime objects.

As for pulling out individual objects, that just looks ugly, so I wouldn't advocate pulling out individual values and then formatting them individually in the string itself.

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