Brett> That whole entry is a little overblown.
Well, sure. Think of it as a bug report with attitude. ;-)
Brett> That was done to fix buffer overflow issues when libc
Brett> implementations didn't do bound checks on the arguments to
Brett> strftime() and would index too far...
That special case could simply be recognized and converted into one that
works couldn't it? Documented or not, I believe it was the standard idiom
for formatting just a date before 2.4.
http://python.org/sf/1520914
Keep or toss as you see fit. Seems like breakage that could have been
avoided to me though.
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