Guido> Can you submit (to the same patch item) a patch for timemodule.c Guido> that adds a callout to your Python strptime code when Guido> HAVE_STRPTIME is undefined? I thought the preferred way to do this would be to implement a Lib/time.py module that includes Brett's strptime() function, move Modules/timemodule.c to Modules/_timemodule.c and at the end of Lib/time.py import the symbols from _time. Skip