On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Tim Chase
<python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>> Any special reasons?
>
> Because it is there (at least on my Debian box)?
>
But not on windows :(
>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%e")
''
>>>
> t...@rubbish:~$ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 28 2008, 08:35:32)
> [GCC 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
> more information.
>
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strftime('%c')
> 'Sat Dec 13 09:35:03 2008'
> >>> time.strftime('%e')
> '13'
>
> Taken from[1]
>
> The full set of format codes supported varies across
> platforms, because Python calls the platform C library's
> strftime() function, and platform variations are common.
>
> So if your underlying C implementation of strftime() supports "%e", then
> Python will. My guess is that the same applies to time.strftime as it does
> to datetime.strftime
>
> The docs list ones that are fairly cross-platform. However, it would seem
> that not all platforms support "%e"
>
>
> -tkc
>
>
> [1]
> http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#module-datetime
>
>
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Leo Jay
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