[Python-Dev] Python strptime

[Guido van Rossum]

> Do you just want a callout to strptime or should I also include my helper
> classes and functions?  I have implemented a class that figures out and
> stores all locale-specific date info (weekday names, month names, etc.).
> I subclass that for another class that creates the regexes used by
> strptime.  I also have three functions that calculate missing data (Julian
> date from Gregorian date, etc.).
> 
> But one does not need access to any of these things directly if one just
> wants to use strptime like in the time module, so they can be left out for
> now if you prefer.

If there's a way to get at the extra stuff by importing strptime.py,
that's preferred.  The time module only needs to support the classic
strptime function.  (But as I said I haven't seen your code, so maybe
I misunderstand your question.)

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