[3.11] gh-94300: Update datetime.strptime documentation (GH-95318) (#103785)

gh-94300: Update datetime.strptime documentation (GH-95318)

The new wording better reflects the cases where `datetime.strptime` differs from` time.strptime`.

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(cherry picked from commit 5b404d6cad2bf53295fdf96305f95efe1ea0174e)

Co-authored-by: Howie Zhao <howiezhaohr@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <git@m.ganssle.io>
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Belopolsky <abalkin@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index d46eaade142e47cadf8c47825a73a916abea8869..df02b68db253f83331ff5552a88c5739eccfa032 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ Other constructors, all class methods:
    Return a :class:`.datetime` corresponding to *date_string*, parsed according to
    *format*.
 
-   This is equivalent to::
+   If *format* does not contain microseconds or timezone information, this is equivalent to::
 
      datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))