@@ -2465,6 +2465,11 @@ These methods accept format codes that can be used to parse and format dates::
24652465   >>> _.strftime('%a %d %b %Y, %I:%M%p') 
24662466   'Mon 31 Jan 2022, 11:59PM' 
24672467
2468+ The user has to make sure, though, that the input can be parsed in a unambiguous
2469+ way. The string ``2025112 `` can be parsed using the format ``%Y%m%d `` as ``2025-1-12 ``,
2470+ ``2025-11-2 ``, or even ``20251-1-2 ``. It is necessary to add appropriate separators to
2471+ reliably get results.
2472+ 
24682473The following is a list of all the format codes that the 1989 C standard
24692474requires, and these work on all platforms with a standard C implementation.
24702475
@@ -2599,14 +2604,6 @@ method. The ISO 8601 year and ISO 8601 week directives are not interchangeable
25992604with the year and week number directives above. Calling :meth: `~.datetime.strptime ` with
26002605incomplete or ambiguous ISO 8601 directives will raise a :exc: `ValueError `.
26012606
2602- .. Note ::
2603-    Input will be split to cope with the provided directives in the format string,
2604-    this aligns with the behaviour of the C implementation.::
2605- 
2606-       >>> datetime.strptime('20250310T12','%Y%m%dT%H%M') 
2607-       datetime.datetime(2025, 3, 10, 1, 2) 
2608- 
2609- 
26102607The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python
26112608calls the platform C library's :c:func: `strftime ` function, and platform
26122609variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your
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