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Find your strptime/strftime format

Tired of looking up the format codes you need for datetime formatting and parsing in Python? Quickly figure out the whole format string you need fo...

and released a command-line version. $ pipx install strptime-cli $ strptime "Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:50:24" %a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S The next time you run across a date/time string you need to parse in #Python, try it out!

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None in Python

Python's None value is used to represent nothingness. None is the default function return value.

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Question #Python-knowledgeable folks. I usually use & recommend platform.system() for identifying the current OS that code runs on. Is that the best approach? I only ask because platform.system() returns a user-facing name (it's not lowercased) and the docs for sys.platform note the possible names while platform.system()'s docs do not (Emscripten, WASI, and Cygwin are absent and I'm not even sure if those are the correct spellings for those platforms).