On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I wonder what the purpose of having a pure-Python implementation of > > strptime is, if you have to rely on strftime. Is this for Windows only? > > Isn't the problem that strftime() is in the C standard but strptime() > is not? So strptime() isn't always provided but we can count on > strftime()? > Exactly. For some reason ANSI decided to go to the trouble of requiring strftime(), and thus all of the locale info for it, but not strptime() nor a standard way to expose that locale info for the programmer to use. > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -Brett C.
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