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bpo-19376: Added doc mentioning `datetime.strptime()` without a year fails for Feb 29. (GH-10243)

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Abhishek Kumar Singh 2019-05-19 02:06:19 +05:30 committed by Cheryl Sabella
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@ -2048,6 +2048,9 @@ For :class:`date` objects, the format codes for hours, minutes, seconds, and
microseconds should not be used, as :class:`date` objects have no such
values. If they're used anyway, ``0`` is substituted for them.
For the :meth:`datetime.strptime` class method, the default value is ``1900-01-01T00:00:00.000``:
any components not specified in the format string will be pulled from the default value. [#]_
The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python
calls the platform C library's :func:`strftime` function, and platform
variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your
@ -2282,3 +2285,4 @@ Notes:
.. rubric:: Footnotes
.. [#] If, that is, we ignore the effects of Relativity
.. [#] Passing ``datetime.strptime('Feb 29', '%b %d')`` will fail since ``1900`` is not a leap year.