From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 02:19:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarify wording on default values for strptime(); defaults are used when better
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b1~326
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=14a0952a1ff84b4adefae8381d41fb1799017064;p=python

Clarify wording on default values for strptime(); defaults are used when better
values cannot be inferred.

Closes bug #1496315.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
index 8045a63ef2..b39b65063c 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libtime.tex
@@ -314,7 +314,8 @@ returned by \function{ctime()}.  If \var{string} cannot be parsed
 according to \var{format}, \exception{ValueError} is raised.  If the
 string to be parsed has excess data after parsing,
 \exception{ValueError} is raised.  The default values used to fill in
-any missing data are \code{(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1)} .
+any missing data when more accurate values cannot be inferred are
+\code{(1900, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1)} .
 
 Support for the \code{\%Z} directive is based on the values contained in
 \code{tzname} and whether \code{daylight} is true.  Because of this,