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Added warnings about platform vagaries to the strptime() documentation. 

This closes SourceForge bug #115146.
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Fred Drake 2000-09-23 04:36:14 +00:00
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@ -237,7 +237,15 @@ directives as those used by \function{strftime()}; it defaults to
returned by \function{ctime()}. The same platform caveats apply; see
the local \UNIX{} documentation for restrictions or additional
supported directives. If \var{string} cannot be parsed according to
\var{format}, \exception{ValueError} is raised.
\var{format}, \exception{ValueError} is raised. Values which are not
provided as part of the input string are filled in with default
values; the specific values are platform-dependent as the XPG standard
does not provide sufficient information to constrain the result.
\strong{Note:} This function relies entirely on the underlying
platform's C library for the date parsing, and some of these libraries
are buggy. There's nothing to be done about this short of a new,
portable implementation of \cfunction{strptime()}.
Availability: Most modern \UNIX{} systems.
\end{funcdesc}