Make sure time.strptime only accepts strings (and document the fact like
strftime). Already didn't accept bytes but make the check earlier. This also
lifts the limitation of requiring ASCII.
Closes issue #5236. Thanks Tennessee Leeuwenburg.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f0dafcb..f2888be 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #5236: Change time.strptime() to only take strings. Didn't work with
+ bytes already but the failure was non-obvious.
+
- Issue #5177: Multiprocessing's SocketListener class now uses
socket.SO_REUSEADDR on all connections so that the user no longer needs
to wait 120 seconds for the socket to expire.