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Something I wrote throws a lot of AttributeError exceptions when using time.strptime() inside a thread. This only seems to happen on Windows (not on Linux) but whatever- upon a'Googling, it seems that time.strptime() isn't considered thread-safe.
Is there a better way to create a datetime object from a string? Current code looks like:
val = DateFromTicks(mktime(strptime(val, '%B %d, %Y'))) But, that yields the exceptions as it's run inside a thread.
Thanks!
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strptime() isn't considered thread-safe. But, that yields the exceptions as it's run inside a thread.
strptime() is another method available in DateTime which is used to format the time stamp which is in string format to date-time object.
Python time strptime() MethodThe format parameter uses the same directives as those used by strftime(); it defaults to "%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y" which matches the formatting returned by ctime(). If string cannot be parsed according to format, or if it has excess data after parsing, ValueError is raised.
According to the bug report, this doesn't happen if you call strptime once before creating your threads. I've done a little testing which seems to confirm this. So just make any call to strptime during initialization as a workaround.
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Just another workaround for this bug, you can simply import _strptime manually, along with datetime
import _strptime from datetime import datetime # then, in threaded block datetime.strptime(date, format) If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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