New submission from Filip Zyzniewski:
The datetime class provides a min datetime object which is not formattable:
on Python 2:
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 05:13:16)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.min.strftime('%Y')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: year=1 is before 1900; the datetime strftime() methods require year
>= 1900
>>>
and on Python 3:
$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 05:07:54)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.min.strftime('%Y')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: year=1 is before 1000; the datetime strftime() methods require year
>= 1000
>>>
It seems to me that either datetime.datetime.min.year should be increased to
1900/1000 or strftime should be able to format year=1 - it is strange that the
API doesn't support its own constants.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 198941
nosy: filip.zyzniewski
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: datetime.datetime.min.strftime('%Y') not working
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue19162>
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