[Python-Dev] Broken strptime in Python 2.3a1 & CVS

[Guido van Rossum]

> I think we should lose the C version of strptime and use
> _strptime.py everywhere now -- allowing x-platform accidents to
> sneak thru is un-Pythonic (unless they're *valuable* x-platform
> accidents <wink> -- strptime accidents are random crap).

Guess what.  Through clever use of the time-machine, we *are* using
_strptime.py everwhere now.  There's an #undef HAVE_STRPTIME in
timemodule.c.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)