On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: .. > Is strftime really so complex that we shouldn't just write our own? I'd be > willing to do it. Over the years the platform strftime has caused any number > of problems. The last time I looked at it we already have to do some work > pre-parsing the format string and passing it off to platform strftime, so > it's not like it's not already a maintenance hassle. >
This is the subject of issue 3173: http://bugs.python.org/issue3173 As far as I can tell, the main problem with implementing strftime is that it has to be locale aware and locale API is as inconsistent/buggy across platforms as strftime itself. > I understand strptime is probably more complex and there's some value to > having strptime/strftime coming from the same library. But I'd be willing to > look at it, too. strptime is already implemented (in pure python) by stdlib, but it piggybacks on strftime for locale information. See Lib/_strptime.py. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
