Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

> Is there any reason not to include the strftime formatting codes
> in the docstrings of time.strftime and time.strptime? 

I believe the reason is that time.strftime behavior is platform dependent, so 
"man strftime" is likely to produce more relevant documentation than "pydoc 
time.strftime".  Python manual 
<http://docs.python.org/library/time.html?#time.strftime> lists ANSI C codes, 
but warns that "Additional directives may be supported on certain platforms, 
but only the ones listed here have a meaning standardized by ANSI C."  It is 
likely that there are platforms where ANSI C subset does not behave in a fully 
compliant manner.

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