[egenix-users] Bug with strptime in mxDateTime

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Alok Singhal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using egenix DateTime module, version 3.1.3.  In
> mx/DateTime/mxDateTime/__init__.py, there's a check for strptime:
> 
> # If strptime() is not available, use the time.strptime() as
> # work-around, if that is available
> try:
>     strptime
>     raise NameError
> except NameError:
>     if hasattr(time, 'strptime'):
>         def strptime(string, format,
>                      _time=time):
>             return DateTime(*_time.strptime(string, format)[:6])
> 
> The code in the 'try' clause above raises NameError whether or not the
> name 'strptime' exists.  The line
> 
>     raise NameError
> 
> should not be there.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

This was obviously a left-over from a debugging session.

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