[issue33941] datetime.strptime not able to recognize invalid date formats

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[issue33941] datetime.strptime not able to recognize invalid date formats

Chris Wilcox added the comment: I looked a bit at _strptime.py and the corresponding tests and thought I would share my notes. The regular expressions clearly allow non-zero padded values for both %d and %m matches. There is one test where the following is run: time.strptime("Mar 1", "%b %d

[issue33941] datetime.strptime not able to recognize invalid date formats

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[issue33941] datetime.strptime not able to recognize invalid date formats

Chris Wilcox added the comment: As %m and %d denote zero padded forms of month and day it seems to me this shouldn't match. Executing a small c program `char* ret = strptime("181223", "%Y%m%d", &tm);` confirms that this is considered invalid to c. The datetime docs indicate that the behavior

[issue33941] datetime.strptime not able to recognize invalid date formats

New submission from Raghunath Lingutla : Can not recognize invalid date values for %Y%m%d, %y%m%d, %Y%m%d %H:%M and few more formats. In Java we have setLenient option which help us to validate to pattern and convert only valid formats Ex: datetime.strptime('181223', '%Y%m%d') For above input