Where is time.strptime()?

[Tim Peters]

[jschmitt at vmlabs.com]
> I even looked for a 'time.py' in Python20\Lib and didn't find one.  Is
> it magic?

Yes, but not deep magic:  much of the std Python library is written in
Python (that's what lives under Lib -- I assume you're running under some
flavor of Windows), but some is written in C.  The time module happens to be
one of the latter.  If you get the full source-code distribution, you'll
find the C source for the time module in Modules/timemodule.c.

If your question is why Windows doesn't have time.strptime, then, like the
docs say, it's only available under "Most modern Unix systems".  The Windows
C library doesn't supply it, so Python doesn't either on Windows.  IIRC,
supplying strptime everywhere is already a feature request in PEP42.  That
will happen if and when someone contributes unencumbered code+docs+tests to
implement it.

timed-out-ly y'rs  - tim