datetime.strptime's %z should support +HH

[rubenbaer]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

The %z directive supports the UTC offset in the form ±HHMM[SS[.ffffff]]. Other parsing functions like fromisoformat on the other hand support the full format ±HH[MM[SS[.ffffff]]]. So there is no strptime format that supports the fromisoformat.

from datetime import datetime
datetime.fromisoformat("2023-05-25T15:35:05.666+01")  # ok
datetime.strptime("2023-05-25T15:35:05.666+01", "%Y-%m-%dT%:H%:M%S.%f%z")  # nok

The same may apply to %:z.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

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