strptime not strict enough

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> Tobias Weber <towb at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>despite the directives for leading zero stime.strptime('09121',
>>'%y%m%d') returns the first of December. Shouldn't it raise ValueError?
>
> Python merely calls the strptime function in your C run-time library.  If
> it sucks, so will time.strptime.

Er, no, wrong: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/_strptime.py?view=markup

Cheers,
Chris
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