Python Equivalent??

[Roy Smith]

In article <1a378204.0403091353.c06c62b at posting.google.com>,
 scummer at 3squares.com (scummer) wrote:

> into Python and not having a great amount of luck. Simply put, I need
> to pass the method a datetime string, with a given pattern, and have
> the timezone set on it to UTC--without changing the time value. For
> example, if I pass these values:

I think you're looking for the strptime() function in the time module, 
i.e. time.strptime().