time.strptime function missing?

[florianosc]

I tried to use the function strptime from module time with Python for &0 v. 1.4.1 and 1.4.2, but the following error message 2s displayed:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'strptime'

I checked that syntax is correct. Other functions of "time" module work as expected.

Is it a bug or that function is unimplemented? Where can I find a list of implemented/unimplemented functions in S60 for each standard Python module?

Thanks a lot

[miohtama]

Two possible reasons

1) Python 2.2 doesn't have function and it was added in the later Python versions

2) PyS60 is missing datetime API parts which were implemented using native C

[miohtama]

Where can I find a list of implemented/unimplemented functions in S60 for each standard Python module?

Download the source code

[florianosc]

Thanks for your reply. I checked what you have suggested.

strptime is included in Python 2.2.

In latest PyS60 sources, the function is indeed present in file timemodule.c, but just before it there is this flag:

#if 0
/* Enable this if it's not declared in <time.h> */
extern char *strptime(const char *, const char *, struct tm *);
#endif

So I suppose the problem is that, when PyS60 was built, time.h did not declare the function and the above flag was disabled, so strptime was not included in time module.

Do you agree with me? Shall I file a new bug on Sourceforge?

Thanks in advance.

[miohtama]

#if 0
/* Enable this if it's not declared in <time.h> */
extern char *strptime(const char *, const char *, struct tm *);
#endif

So I suppose the problem is that, when PyS60 was built, time.h did not declare the function and the above flag was disabled, so strptime was not included in time module.

Do you agree with me? Shall I file a new bug on Sourceforge?

time.h might be missing on Symbian. It doesn't really have any of the standard C libraries. Please, file a bug, and others will know how to deal with the problem.

Also there exist a custom datetime port to PyS60.

[mad77]

Is it a bug or that function is unimplemented? Where can I find a list of implemented/unimplemented functions in S60 for each standard Python module?

In Python, strptime depends on the implementation of the underling operating system; looks like Symbian doesn't have it, so it's not in the time module.

Maybe you can get an implementation from a time.c source file, and use it to reimplement it in Python or build a C module.

HTH