Created on 2015-12-28 08:32 by utkonos, last changed 2020-09-11 23:15 by brett.cannon.
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| msg257108 - (view) | Author: Utkonos (utkonos) | Date: 2015-12-28 08:32 | |
I get a ValueError when running the following through strptime:
datetime.datetime.strptime('(CST)', '(%Z)')
But the following works:
datetime.datetime.strptime('(EST)', '(%Z)')
PST and MST also trigger the same exception.
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| msg257262 - (view) | Author: Martin Panter (martin.panter) *  |
Date: 2016-01-01 02:11 | |
I suspect the datetime module’s %Z parsing depends on the locale, just like time.strptime() does: <https://docs.python.org/dev/library/time.html#time.strptime>. |
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| msg257294 - (view) | Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) * |
Date: 2016-01-01 20:24 | |
The code is shared by the two modules (it's in _strptime.py). So, yes. There is clearly a doc bug here (%Z needs a footnote in the table in the datetime docs), but there is no practical way to implement the parsing of arbitrary (non-locale) timezone strings, since it is not a one-to-one mapping. |
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| 2020-09-11 23:15:47 | brett.cannon | set | nosy:
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| 2016-01-01 20:24:03 | r.david.murray | set | versions:
+ Python 2.7, Python 3.6 nosy: + r.david.murray, docs@python messages: + msg257294 assignee: docs@python components: + Documentation |
| 2016-01-01 02:11:19 | martin.panter | set | nosy:
+ martin.panter messages: + msg257262 |
| 2015-12-28 08:32:13 | utkonos | create | |