Enhancement Proposal: Standardized Support for Non-Zero-Padded Day and Month Formatting in datetime.strftime

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Python's datetime.datetime.strftime supports formatting directives for dates and times, such as %d for zero-padded days and %m for zero-padded months.
While there are platform-specific ways to get non-zero-padded day (%-d on Unix) or month (%-m), these do not work reliably across all platforms.. Particularly between Unix-like systems and Windows.

from datetime import datetime

dt = datetime(2025, 6, 6)

# On Unix:
dt.strftime("%-d. %-m. %Y")  # '6. 6. 2025'

# On Windows:
dt.strftime("%-d. %-m. %Y")  # Raises ValueError

I understand that strftime relies on the underlying C library for formatting, which is probably why this behavior differs between platforms. That said, if it's not practical to change this at the core level, maybe there could be some kind of wrapper or Python-level normalization to make things more consistent across systems.

Currently this requires a workaround such as usage of .format directly on the datetime object.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-138982
• gh-139002
• gh-139088
• gh-145018

從 datetime.datetime.strftime 開始，調查其指令在類 Unix 系統和 Windows 上如何依賴底層 C 函式庫。在開始之前查看已連結的 PRs；確定一種在各平台上對不帶前導零的日和月進行格式化的一致方案，即表示完成。