From 36f39464e571def702929a6d5e117ebba9d88b68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Andrea Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 18:00:41 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] docs: datetime: Encoding is no longer relevant The `.strftime()` methods return a Unicode string as of Python 3.0. --- Doc/library/datetime.rst | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index bde24ec5f2e11e..8dd697dbabe359 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2496,11 +2496,7 @@ Notes: (1) 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). + example, "month/day/year" versus "day/month/year"). (2) The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but From 8754effaade6a23396775d6705a59243aa828e1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:35:44 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update Doc/library/datetime.rst --- Doc/library/datetime.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/datetime.rst b/Doc/library/datetime.rst index 8dd697dbabe359..1f67c37803bd5d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/datetime.rst +++ b/Doc/library/datetime.rst @@ -2496,7 +2496,8 @@ Notes: (1) 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"). + example, "month/day/year" versus "day/month/year"), and the output may + contain non-ASCII characters. (2) The :meth:`strptime` method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but