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Added docs for strptime().

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Guido van Rossum 1998-06-09 16:30:56 +00:00
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@ -168,6 +168,18 @@ The field width is normally 2 except for \code{\%j} where it is 3.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{strptime}{string\optional{, format}}
Parse a string representing a time according to a format. The return
value is a tuple as returned by \code{gmtime()} or \code{localtime()}.
The format uses the same directives as those used by
\code{strftime()}; it defaults to \code{"\%a \%b \%d \%H:\%M:\%S \%Y"}
which matches the formatting returned by \code{ctime()}. The same
platform caveats apply; see the local Unix documentation for
restrictions or additional supported directives. This function may
not be defined on all platforms.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{time}{}
Return the time as a floating point number expressed in seconds since
the epoch, in UTC. Note that even though the time is always returned