From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:09:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [3.11] gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant (GH-93365) (#103788) X-Git-Tag: v3.11.4~144 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9fbb614c4ed0b9181db1c1b858dfb93587662d6b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.11] gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant (GH-93365) (#103788) This removes a section of the `strftime` and `strptime` documentation that refers to a bygone era when `strftime` would return an encoded byte string. --------- (cherry picked from commit 2aa22f72fbbabb4ca2a641c0546d25c45128c56f) Co-authored-by: William Andrea Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa --- diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index df02b68db253..9711f944e90d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2502,10 +2502,7 @@ Notes: Because the format depends on the current locale, care should be taken when making assumptions about the output value. Field orderings will vary (for example, "month/day/year" versus "day/month/year"), and the output may - contain Unicode characters encoded using the locale's default encoding (for - example, if the current locale is ``ja_JP``, the default encoding could be - any one of ``eucJP``, ``SJIS``, or ``utf-8``; use :meth:`locale.getlocale` - to determine the current locale's encoding). + contain non-ASCII characters. (2) The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but