Problems with datetime.datetime.strptime

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Tuomas Vesterinen <tuomas.vesterinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>  I hoped that I could get rid of my special module _strptime2 when 
>  porting to Python 3.0. But testing is a disappointment.
[snip]
>  C :
>     strftime('%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y')='Sat May  9 11:26:12 2009'
>     strptime('Sat May  9 11:26:12 2009','%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y')=
>       'e' is a bad directive in format '%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y'
[snip]
>  What to do.

I'd start by checking out the code for python 3 trunk and seeing if I
could fix it. If I could I'd update the unit tests and the
documentation then submit the patch to the python bugtracker.

If I couldn't fix it then I'd report it as a bug.

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick