Various strings to dates.

[Amy G]

I have seen something about this beofore on this forum, but my google search
didn't come up with the answer I am looking for.

I have a list of tuples.  Each tuple is in the following format:

("data", "moredata", "evenmoredata", "date string")

The date string is my concern.  This is the date stamp from an email.
The problem is that I have a whole bunch of variations when it comes to the
format that the date string is in.  For example I could have the following
two tuples:

("data", "moredata", "evenmoredata", "Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:06:15")
("data", "moredata", "evenmoredata", "Thursday, 22 January 2004 03:15:06")

I know there is some way to use the date string from each of these to get a
date usable by python, but I cannot figure it out.
I was trying to use time.strptime but have been unsuccesful thus far.

Any help is appreciated.