Change time.strptime() to raise ValueError whenever there is an error in the
format string. Before exceptions generated by the internal code propagated up
to the user and were not helpful.
Closes bug #1340337.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9b3f381..59f165a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@
Library
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+- Bug #1340337: change time.strptime() to always return ValueError when there
+ is an error in the format string.
+
- Patch #754022: Greatly enhanced webbrowser.py (by Oleg Broytmann).
- Bug #729103: pydoc.py: Fix docother() method to accept additional