[3.13] gh-57095: Add note about input splitting in `datetime.*.strptime` (GH-131049...

(cherry picked from commit 2e3e76e5cde34786780f5b3723f495fdbdf37c84)

Co-authored-by: Petr Viktorin <encukou@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
index 64356c9b6b047229ff40c14427bd621d84fb99c5..ea7904fe6d6d49dbb9c70620f0d56b426bbc8f16 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst
@@ -2591,6 +2591,12 @@ For the :meth:`.datetime.strptime` class method, the default value is
 ``1900-01-01T00:00:00.000``: any components not specified in the format string
 will be pulled from the default value.
 
+.. note::
+   Format strings without separators can be ambiguous for parsing. For
+   example, with ``%Y%m%d``, the string ``2026111`` may be parsed either as
+   ``2026-11-01`` or as ``2026-01-11``.
+   Use separators to ensure the input is parsed as intended.
+
 .. note::
    When used to parse partial dates lacking a year, :meth:`.datetime.strptime`
    will raise when encountering February 29 because the default year of 1900 is