Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu:
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resolution: - wont fix
status: open - closed
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http://bugs.python.org/issue4430
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New submission from sil [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
$ python -c import time; print time.strptime('25/11/2008
25/11/2008','%d/%m/%y %d/%m/%y')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File string, line 1, in module
File /usr/lib/python2.5/_strptime.py, line 311, in strptime
format_regex =
Matthew Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Subversion is formatting a string from a time (strftime), so a repeated
placeholder is OK.
You're trying to _parse_ a time from a string (strptime). If you're
telling it that 2 different parts of the string are the date, what
should it do?
Brett Cannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
The reason this occurs is that in order to have a portable and sane
implementation time.strptime() uses the re module to parse dates. The
issue here is that by specifying the same format twice the re module is
complaining that there are two named
