> The old mx.datetime module (on which Python's datetime module is based, I
> presume) had a strptime() function which would basically do the reverse
(you
> specify a format string and it would attempt to parse the date string you
give
> it).  Unfortunately, Python's datetime module doesn't have such a
function.
> This is the best way I have found of doing it:

Fortunately, the time module does.

time.strptime

HTH,
Jacob

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