Problems with datetime.datetime.strptime

[Tuomas Vesterinen]

I hoped that I could get rid of my special module _strptime2 when
porting to Python 3.0. But testing is a disappointment.

Python 3.0.1 (r301:69556, Apr 14 2009, 14:30:31)
[GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information..... print(locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, locale_str), ':')
.... test_cases = [
.... locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_T_FMT), # test default formats
.... locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT),
.... locale.nl_langinfo(locale.T_FMT)
.... ]
.... for form in test_cases:
.... string = val.strftime(form)
.... print(" strftime(%s)=%s" % (repr(form), repr(string)))
.... print(" strptime(%s,%s)=" % (repr(string), repr(form)),
end=' ')
.... try:
.... val2 = datetime.datetime.strptime(string, form)
.... except ValueError as e:
.... print('\n ', str(e))
.... else:
.... print('\n ', str(val2))
........ test1(loc, now)
....
C :
strftime('%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y')='Sat May 9 11:26:12 2009'
strptime('Sat May 9 11:26:12 2009','%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y')=
'e' is a bad directive in format '%a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y'
strftime('%m/%d/%y')='05/09/09'
strptime('05/09/09','%m/%d/%y')=
2009-05-09 00:00:00
strftime('%H:%M:%S')='11:26:12'
strptime('11:26:12','%H:%M:%S')=
1900-01-01 11:26:12
en_US.UTF-8 :
strftime('%a %d %b %Y %r %Z')='Sat 09 May 2009 11:26:12 AM '
strptime('Sat 09 May 2009 11:26:12 AM ','%a %d %b %Y %r %Z')=
'r' is a bad directive in format '%a %d %b %Y %r %Z'
strftime('%m/%d/%Y')='05/09/2009'
strptime('05/09/2009','%m/%d/%Y')=
2009-05-09 00:00:00
strftime('%r')='11:26:12 AM'
strptime('11:26:12 AM','%r')=
'r' is a bad directive in format '%r'
fi_FI.UTF-8 :
strftime('%a %e. %Bta %Y %T')='la 9. toukokuuta 2009 11:26:12'
strptime('la 9. toukokuuta 2009 11:26:12','%a %e. %Bta %Y %T')=
'e' is a bad directive in format '%a %e. %Bta %Y %T'
strftime('%d.%m.%Y')='09.05.2009'
strptime('09.05.2009','%d.%m.%Y')=
2009-05-09 00:00:00
strftime('%T')='11:26:12'
strptime('11:26:12','%T')=
'T' is a bad directive in format '%T'

What to do.
Tuomas Vesterinen