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Author lemburg
Recipients belopolsky, docs@python, eric.araujo, lemburg, r.david.murray, ronaldoussoren, santoso.wijaya, sverrejoh
Date 2011-05-18.07:53:21
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Content 
Santoso Wijaya wrote:
> 
> Santoso Wijaya <santoso.wijaya@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> `strftime` does not, indeed, seem to define what behaviour it is supposed to do when given non-supported format characters. Under Windows, in fact, it will crash the runtime (see: issue #10762).

According to POSIX, it is defined to be undefined:

"""
       If a conversion specification does not correspond to any of  the  above,  the
       behavior is undefined.
"""

Of course, crashing the runtime is not a good way to interpret this ;-)
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