Fix issue 2782: be less strict about the format string type in strftime.
Accept unicode and anything else ParseTuple "s#" can deal with. This
matches the time.strftime behavior.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
+ unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
+
- The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
in Python 3.0.