time.strptime()
parses strings into time tuples again; the default parse format matches the output of time.ctime()
and time.asctime()
:
>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(time.time())
'Fri Apr 25 12:12:06 2014'
>>> time.strptime(time.ctime(time.time()))
time.struct_time(tm_year=2014, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=25, tm_hour=12, tm_min=12, tm_sec=10, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=115, tm_isdst=-1)
>>> time.strptime(time.asctime())
time.struct_time(tm_year=2014, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=25, tm_hour=12, tm_min=13, tm_sec=6, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=115, tm_isdst=-1)