[Python-ideas] strptime without second argument as an inverse to __str__

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Wolfgang Maier <
wolfgang.maier at biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

>
>> Since parsing will be done in C, it's cost can be made negligible.  In
>> implementations other than CPython, YMMV.
>>
>>
> Why would parsing occur in C ? The datetime module is implemented in pure
> Python.


No.  In CPython, datetime module is implemented in C.

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Modules/_datetimemodule.c
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