Tobias Weber <t...@gmx.net> wrote:
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>despite the directives for leading zero stime.strptime('09121',
>'%y%m%d') returns the first of December. Shouldn't it raise ValueError?
Python merely calls the strptime function in your C run-time library. If
it sucks, so will time.strptime.
>Where do I get strict date parsing?
You do it yourself. Strict date parsing is incredibly tricky.
The eGenix mx.DateTime module might be more to your liking.
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