`datetime.strptime(dt.strftime("%c"), "%c"))` fails when year is <1000.
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Description
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Bug description:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.strptime(datetime(1000, 1, 1).strftime("%c"), "%c")
datetime.datetime(1000, 1, 1, 0, 0)
>>> datetime.strptime(datetime(999, 1, 1).strftime("%c"), "%c")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<python-input-1>", line 1, in <module>
datetime.strptime(datetime(999, 1, 1).strftime("%c"), "%c")
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/nlx5/Documents/Programming/Python/cpython/Lib/_strptime.py", line 573, in _strptime_datetime
tt, fraction, gmtoff_fraction = _strptime(data_string, format)
~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/nlx5/Documents/Programming/Python/cpython/Lib/_strptime.py", line 352, in _strptime
raise ValueError("time data %r does not match format %r" %
(data_string, format))
ValueError: time data 'Tue Jan 1 00:00:00 999' does not match format '%c'
Discovered this when adding some hypothesis tests for strptime/strftime. I doubt this is a real problem anyone is going to have in the real world, but maybe.
I do not know if this is locale-specific or OS specific.
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
Linux
Linked PRs
- gh-124778
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Research direction
Start with the datetime.strptime/strftime reproduction in the issue and inspect Lib/_strptime.py, especially the parsing path for %c. Check the behavior across years below 1000 and the reported Linux environment; done means the year-999 round trip succeeds without breaking existing parsing behavior.
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- python
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- backend
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- Bug
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