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Re: timedelta problem

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From Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com>
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Subject Re: timedelta problem
Date Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:43:09 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 09:23:02 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Denis McMahon
> <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:24:47 +0800, luofeiyu wrote:
>>
>> On further inspection, it seems that strptime() in 2.7 doesn't handle
>> %z at all. In 3.2, it ignores the value it gets, because there's no
>> practical way to select the "right" tz string from the offset.
> 
> I'm not sure when %z was added, but it's worth noting that it doesn't
> seem to be documented earlier than 3.3.

There may be some confusion because %z is in the table of strftime and 
strptime format chars on the 2.7.8 docs at

https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-
behavior

but I suspect it's only applicable to strftime in that release.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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timedelta  problem luofeiyu <elearn2014@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 10:24 +0800
  Re: timedelta  problem Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 03:51 +0000
    Re: timedelta problem Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 13:59 +1000
    Re: timedelta problem Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 22:00 -0600
  Re: timedelta  problem Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 07:39 +0000
    Re: timedelta  problem Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 08:44 +0000
    Re: timedelta problem Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 09:23 -0600
      Re: timedelta problem Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 17:43 +0000
        Re: timedelta problem Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 12:05 -0600
    Re: timedelta problem Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-08-15 17:29 +0100
  Re: timedelta  problem Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-08-15 09:36 +0000

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