gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant by wjandrea · Pull Request #93365 · python/cpython

The `.strftime()` methods return a Unicode string as of Python 3.0.

AlexWaygood changed the title docs: datetime: Encoding is no longer relevant gh-99033: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant

AlexWaygood changed the title gh-99033: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant gh-99032: datetime docs: Encoding is no longer relevant

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This removes a section of the `strftime` and `strptime` documentation that refers to a bygone era when `strftime` would return an encoded byte string.

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(cherry picked from commit 2aa22f7)

Co-authored-by: William Andrea <william.j.andrea@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>

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This removes a section of the `strftime` and `strptime` documentation that refers to a bygone era when `strftime` would return an encoded byte string.

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(cherry picked from commit 2aa22f7)

Co-authored-by: William Andrea <william.j.andrea@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <1377457+pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>