Alan> 1. In the time module, the strptime() function's format
Alan> parameter is optional. For consistency's sake, I'd expect
Alan> datetime.strptime()'s format parameter also to be optional. (On
Alan> the other hand, the default value for the format is not very
Alan> useful.
I see a need for this patch - I've had to write
"datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))" far too many
times.
I don't understand the C API well enough to check if
reference counts are handled properly, but otherwise the
implementation looks straight forward.
Documentation looks good
