[issue3173] external strftime for Python?

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eric Smith <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> If we're going to take this on (re-writing strftime), I think the way to do it is to have it take the locale info as a
> parameter, and if that parameter is NULL then look up the info in the current locale.

You may want to take a look at BSD-ish strftime_l function which is
defined by POSIX.1-2008:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strftime.html

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