Steve Dower added the comment: FWIW, those macros prevent a certain class of "undefined behavior," which in this case is to terminate the process rather than return an error code. They don't do anything to prevent crashes due to exploitation or malicious code.
The place for more robust formatting is datetime.__format__(), which from a quick test seems to be more strict about what is in the format string. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24917> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
