Time series chapter: strftime and strptime don't use the same format codes

[jabranham]

In the part discussing converting datetime objects from strings, you say that strptime uses the same format codes as strftime, but that's not quite right:

value = '2011-01-03'
stamp = datetime.strptime(value, '%Y-%m-%d')  # works
datetime.strptime(value, '%F')  # ValueError: 'F' is a bad directive in format '%F'
datetime.strftime(stamp, '%F')  # works

[wesm]

Thanks for bringing this up. Could you submit an errata in the O'Reilly portal? http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920050896.do

[jabranham]

Done

[wesm]

thank you!