[Python-Dev] User's complaints

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    Brett> That whole entry is a little overblown.  

Well, sure.  Think of it as a bug report with attitude. ;-)

    Brett> That was done to fix buffer overflow issues when libc
    Brett> implementations didn't do bound checks on the arguments to
    Brett> strftime() and would index too far...

That special case could simply be recognized and converted into one that
works couldn't it?  Documented or not, I believe it was the standard idiom
for formatting just a date before 2.4.

    http://python.org/sf/1520914

Keep or toss as you see fit.  Seems like breakage that could have been
avoided to me though.

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