> I wonder what the purpose of having a pure-Python implementation of > strptime is, if you have to rely on strftime. Is this for Windows only? Isn't the problem that strftime() is in the C standard but strptime() is not? So strptime() isn't always provided but we can count on strftime()? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)