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Title: time.strftime breakage in 2.4/2.5
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Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 2.4
process
Status: closed Resolution: fixed
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Assigned To: brett.cannon Nosy List: brett.cannon, skip.montanaro (2)
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Created on 2006-07-12 01:52 by skip.montanaro, last changed 2006-07-18 04:42 by brett.cannon.

Messages (2)
msg29142 - (view) Author: Skip Montanaro (skip.montanaro) Date: 2006-07-12 01:52 
Up to Python 2.3 this worked just fine:

    >>> import time
    >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", (2005, 6, 4) + (0,)*6)
    '2005-06-04'

Starting with 2.4 it broke:

    >>> import time
    >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", (2005, 6, 4) + (0,)*6)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    ValueError: day of year out of range

though if you change the unused fields to 1 it works:

    >>> time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d", (2005, 6, 4) + (1,)*6)
    '2005-06-04'

While this wasn't documented behavior, it was certainly behaviour that 
worked for a long time.  It should probably be allowed to continue 
working.

Skip
msg29143 - (view) Author: Brett Cannon (brett.cannon) Date: 2006-07-18 04:42 
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Fixed in rev. 50696 .
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