Steve Dower added the comment: Whoops, must have done a bad copy-paste to get that DECREF in there (I couldn't apply the patch directly because it didn't come from an HG repo, so I had to do it by hand).
MSVC seems somewhat inconsistent about its response: >>> strftime('aaa%') '' >>> strftime('aaaa%') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: Invalid format string How closely do we want to simply expose the underlying C library's behaviour? ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24917> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com