bpo-27741: Better wording for datetime.strptime() (GH-9994)

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Co-authored-by: Gus Goulart <augusto@goulart.me>
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@ -2016,7 +2016,9 @@ although not all objects support a :meth:`timetuple` method.
Conversely, the :meth:`datetime.strptime` class method creates a
:class:`.datetime` object from a string representing a date and time and a
corresponding format string. ``datetime.strptime(date_string, format)`` is
equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``.
equivalent to ``datetime(*(time.strptime(date_string, format)[0:6]))``, except
when the format includes sub-second components or timezone offset information,
which are supported in ``datetime.strptime`` but are discarded by ``time.strptime``.
For :class:`.time` objects, the format codes for year, month, and day should not
be used, as time objects have no such values. If they're used anyway, ``1900``