[issue19376] datetime.datetime.strptime without a year fails on Feb 29

New submission from Matthew Earl: datetime.datetime.strptime() without a year fails on Feb 29 with: >>> datetime.datetime.strptime("Feb 29", "%b %d") Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/auto/ensoft-sjc/thirdpar

[issue19376] document that strptime() does not support the Feb 29 if the format does not contain the year

Matthew Earl added the comment: Out of interest, what's the reason for accepting the time.strptime() version as a bug, but not datetime.datetime.strptime()? Is it that time.strptime() is meant to be a simple parsing from string to tuple (with minimal checks), wh