Index: library/datetime.rst
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--- library/datetime.rst	(revision 77483)
+++ library/datetime.rst	(working copy)
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@
 
    Return a string representing the date, controlled by an explicit format string.
    Format codes referring to hours, minutes or seconds will see 0 values. See
-   section :ref:`strftime-behavior`.
+   section :ref:`strftime-strptime-behavior`.
 
 Example of counting days to an event::
 
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@
    *format*.  This is equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string,
    format)[0:6]))``. :exc:`ValueError` is raised if the date_string and format
    can't be parsed by :func:`time.strptime` or if it returns a value which isn't a
-   time tuple.
+   time tuple. See section :ref:`strftime-strptime-behavior`.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.5
 
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@
 .. method:: datetime.strftime(format)
 
    Return a string representing the date and time, controlled by an explicit format
-   string.  See section :ref:`strftime-behavior`.
+   string.  See section :ref:`strftime-strptime-behavior`.
 
 Examples of working with datetime objects:
 
@@ -1231,7 +1231,7 @@
 .. method:: time.strftime(format)
 
    Return a string representing the time, controlled by an explicit format string.
-   See section :ref:`strftime-behavior`.
+   See section :ref:`strftime-strptime-behavior`.
 
 
 .. method:: time.utcoffset()
@@ -1495,10 +1495,10 @@
 EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).
 
 
-.. _strftime-behavior:
+.. _strftime-strptime-behavior:
 
-:meth:`strftime` Behavior
--------------------------
+:meth:`strftime` and :func:`strptime` Behavior
+----------------------------------------------
 
 :class:`date`, :class:`datetime`, and :class:`time` objects all support a
 ``strftime(format)`` method, to create a string representing the time under the
@@ -1506,6 +1506,11 @@
 acts like the :mod:`time` module's ``time.strftime(fmt, d.timetuple())``
 although not all objects support a :meth:`timetuple` method.
 
+Conversely, the :func:`datetime.strptime` class method creates a 
+:class:`datetime` object from a string representing a date and time and a
+corresponding format string. ``datetime.strptime(date_string, format)`` is
+equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``.
+
 For :class:`time` objects, the format codes for year, month, and day should not
 be used, as time objects have no such values.  If they're used anyway, ``1900``
 is substituted for the year, and ``0`` for the month and day.