[issue8957] strptime(.., '%c') fails to parse output of strftime('%c', ..) in some locales

[Eli Bendersky]

Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> added the comment:

Alexander, but still - this isn't just an implementation of strptime. strptime, AFAIU strptime gets the format string as a parameter and uses it to parse a date string into a "tm" struct. So why do we need to parse a date string *without* a format string in Python, resorting to heuristics and pseudo-AI instead?

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