Converting specific time format with strptime

Question

I'm trying to convert

[16/Jan/2010:18:11:06 +0100] (common log format)

to a timestamp. How can I use strptime to convert this?

time zone can be different from +0100

Answer 1

import time
log = '16/Jan/2010:18:11:06 +0100'
dt = time.strptime(log, '%d/%b/%Y:%H:%M:%S +0100')

Reference: http://docs.python.org/library/time.html#time.strptime

Python's timezone support is problematic and platform dependant.
See this post (see also its first part).