change the date string into timestamp

Sat Apr 9 05:38:21 EDT 2005

Dear All,

    In Php strtotime() will change a date
string into timestamp.  I want to know which 
python function will  change a date string
into timestamp. 

Date string format is below 

Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:22:14 +0900

regards
Prabahar

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