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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-03-11 11:29:48 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-03-11 11:29:48 -0800 |
| commit | b35b36e106152245fe68880f4073fd99ec17f65d (patch) | |
| tree | f76da39bedae274cb44630ba61291d69206b13e0 | |
| parent | 3bc801960655ea265599805eac24173164b511a6 (diff) | |
| download | cpython3-b35b36e106152245fe68880f4073fd99ec17f65d.tar.gz | |
bpo-31327: Update time documentation to reflect possible errors (GH-31460)
As per the comments, this mirrors the [datetime documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.htmlGH-datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp).
```
>>> import time
>>> time.localtime(999999999999999999999)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: timestamp out of range for platform time_t
>>> time.localtime(-3600)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
```
(cherry picked from commit c83fc9c02c9846ec3a2d0123999c98e02f00b3f5)
Co-authored-by: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/time.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/time.rst b/Doc/library/time.rst index 735588a17e..ed1f71dea4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/time.rst +++ b/Doc/library/time.rst @@ -259,6 +259,12 @@ Functions :const:`None`, the current time as returned by :func:`.time` is used. The dst flag is set to ``1`` when DST applies to the given time. + :func:`localtime` may raise :exc:`OverflowError`, if the timestamp is + outside the range of values supported by the platform C :c:func:`localtime` + or :c:func:`gmtime` functions, and :exc:`OSError` on :c:func:`localtime` or + :c:func:`gmtime` failure. It's common for this to be restricted to years + between 1970 and 2038. + .. function:: mktime(t) |