Ways to get number of seconds from Epoch

[Joseph A Knapka]

"Václav Sigmund" wrote:
> 
> I am a Python newbie and I sudenly run into following problem:
> 
> I would like to write a tool to analyze the access.log records from my
> company's webserver, and it would  be very convenient for to convert dates
> date of the record into number of seconds from Epoch (let's call it
> "standard unix time" for convenience).
> 
> Each record have recorded time as follows:
> 
> [15/Apr/2002:08:28:56 +0200]
> 
> In my opinion, this information should be sufficient to convert the record
> to "standard unix time". But function mktime from package only accepts tuple
> with some additional informations like day of week etc.

You can leave day-of-week and week-of-year out;
they are ignored anyway when converting a time tuple
to an epoch time.

Cheers,

-- Joe
    Any OS distinguishable from Windows is not sufficiently broken.