parse date string having "EDT"

[Tim Roberts]

Junaid P V <junu.pv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>I was trying to parse a date string containing "EDT" time zone
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>eg: 'Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011'
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>I tried:
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>datetime.strptime('Mon Jun 20 14:00:57 EDT 2011', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y')
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>But I get error

Right, because strptime doesn't support %Z.  You'll have to handle that
yourself and remove it before conversion.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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