Why %e not in time.strftime directives?

[Leo jay]

Any special reasons?

Thanks.

 

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Leo> Any special reasons?

Nobody thought to add it? Got a patch?

 

[Tim Chase]

Any special reasons?

Because it is there (at least on my Debian box)?

tim@rubbish:~$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 28 2008, 08:35:32)
[GCC 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
'13'

Taken from[1]

The full set of format codes supported varies across
platforms, because Python calls the platform C library's
strftime() function, and platform variations are common.

So if your underlying C implementation of strftime() supports
"%e", then Python will. My guess is that the same applies to
time.strftime as it does to datetime.strftime

The docs list ones that are fairly cross-platform. However, it
would seem that not all platforms support "%e"


-tkc


[1]
http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#module-datetime

 

[Leo Jay]

Because it is there (at least on my Debian box)?

But not on windows

tim@rubbish:~$ python
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, May 28 2008, 08:35:32)
[GCC 4.2.4 (Debian 4.2.4-1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for
more information.
'13'

Taken from[1]

The full set of format codes supported varies across
platforms, because Python calls the platform C library's
strftime() function, and platform variations are common.

So if your underlying C implementation of strftime() supports "%e", then
Python will. My guess is that the same applies to time.strftime as it does
to datetime.strftime

The docs list ones that are fairly cross-platform. However, it would seem
that not all platforms support "%e"


-tkc


[1]
http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#module-datetime