BUG: constructor Timestamp.strptime() does not support %z.

Author: saurav-chakravorty

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.2.rst

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 **Timezones**
 
--
+- Bug in :meth:`Timestamp.strptime` - support %z. (:issue:`21257`)
 -
 -
 

pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx

@@ -677,6 +677,12 @@ class Timestamp(_Timestamp):
  """
  return cls(datetime.fromtimestamp(ts))
 
+ # Issue 25016. As strptime with %z is not supported in Python 2.
+ @classmethod
+ def strptime(cls, date_string, format):
+ raise NotImplementedError("Timestamp.strptime() is not implmented."
+ "Use to_datetime() to parse date strings.")
+
  @classmethod
  def combine(cls, date, time):
  """

pandas/tests/scalar/timestamp/test_timestamp.py

@@ -355,6 +355,14 @@ def test_constructor_invalid_tz(self):
  # interpreted as a `freq`
  Timestamp('2012-01-01', 'US/Pacific')
 
+ def test_constructor_strptime(self):
+ # GH25016
+ # Test support for Timestamp.strptime
+ fmt = '%Y%m%d-%H%M%S-%f%z'
+ ts = '20190129-235348-000001+0000'
+ with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError):
+ Timestamp.strptime(ts, fmt)
+
  def test_constructor_tz_or_tzinfo(self):
  # GH#17943, GH#17690, GH#5168
  stamps = [Timestamp(year=2017, month=10, day=22, tz='UTC'),