David House <dmho...@gmail.com> added the comment: Yes and no.
Firstly, %z isn't listed as deprecated in the documentation of the time module's strftime -- although %Z is (note differing case). Secondly, I still think the bug is invalid, because the documentation of datetime.datetime.strptime says it behaves like time.strptime, whose documentation says "only the directives specified in the documentation [of strftime()] are supported". Since we're in the time module, that reference to strftime() means time.strftime(), which doesn't list %z as a directive. Finally, there *is* a confusing docs issue, however: the "strftime() behaviour" section in the datetime module documentation lists %z as a valid directive, whereas it's not listed in time.strftime. Although these functions have in theory nothing to do with one another, you would in practice expect them to support the same directives. Since in fact the footnote in the documentation of time.strftime() says %z isn't supported by all ANSI C platforms (despite apparently being required by the standard), I suggest that %z be removed from the list of allowed modifiers in the "strftime() behaviour" section in the datetime module documentation. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6641> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
