convert from date string to epoch

[Paul Watson]

Stefan Antonelli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have to convert several timestamps. The given format, eg "yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss"
> has to be converted to an epoch string. Is there any proper way to do this?
> 
> If not, i have to split the given string and resolve this by a calculation?
> 
> Thanks for help.
> 
> Stefan.

I saw some code on the net.  ASPB I think.  I whacked a few more lines 
to be an example.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import httplib
import time

ht = httplib.HTTP('www.python.org')
fich='/index.html'
print fich,
ht.putrequest('GET', fich)
ht.endheaders()
errcode, errmsg, headers = ht.getreply()
print headers.dict
print headers.dict['server']
textoFecha=headers.dict['date']
print textoFecha
fecha = time.strptime(textoFecha,'%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z')
print fecha
print time.asctime(fecha)
print time.mktime(fecha)
print "==="
fecha = time.strptime('2006-12-15 19:42','%Y-%m-%d %H:%M')
print fecha
print time.asctime(fecha)
print time.mktime(fecha)