Skip Montanaro <skip <at> pobox.com> writes:
> josh> Shouldn't datetime have strptime?
> If someone wants to get their feet wet with extension module
> programming
> this might be a good place to start. Mostly, I think nobody who has
> needed/wanted it so far has the round tuits available to spend on the
> task.
OK, it was pretty straightforward. Thanks for the direction.
To whom should I send the patch (attached)?
--- Modules/datetimemodule.c.orig 2003-10-20 10:34:46.000000000 -0400
+++ Modules/datetimemodule.c 2005-01-10 20:58:38.884823296 -0500
@@ -3774,6 +3774,32 @@
return result;
}
+/* Return new datetime from time.strptime(). */
+static PyObject *
+datetime_strptime(PyObject *cls, PyObject *args)
+{
+ PyObject *result = NULL, *obj, *module;
+ const char *string, *format;
+
+ if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "ss:strptime", &string, &format))
+ return NULL;
+ if ((module = PyImport_ImportModule("time")) == NULL)
+ return NULL;
+ obj = PyObject_CallMethod(module, "strptime", "ss", string, format);
+ Py_DECREF(module);
+
+ result = PyObject_CallFunction(cls, "iiiiiii",
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 0)),
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 1)),
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 2)),
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 3)),
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 4)),
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 5)),
+ PyInt_AsLong(PySequence_GetItem(obj, 6)));
+ Py_DECREF(obj);
+ return result;
+}
+
/* Return new datetime from date/datetime and time arguments. */
static PyObject *
datetime_combine(PyObject *cls, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
@@ -4385,6 +4411,11 @@
PyDoc_STR("timestamp -> UTC datetime from a POSIX timestamp "
"(like time.time()).")},
+ {"strptime", (PyCFunction)datetime_strptime,
+ METH_VARARGS | METH_CLASS,
+ PyDoc_STR("strptime -> new datetime parsed from a string"
+ "(like time.strptime()).")},
+
{"combine", (PyCFunction)datetime_combine,
METH_VARARGS | METH_KEYWORDS | METH_CLASS,
PyDoc_STR("date, time -> datetime with same date and time fields")},
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