Extract day of year and Julian day from a string date

Question

I have a string \"2012.11.07\" in python. I need to convert it to date object and then get an integer value of day of year and also Julian day

Answer 1

To simplify the initial steps of abarnert's answer:

from dateutil import parser
s = '2012.11.07'
dt = parser.parse(s)

then apply the rest of abanert's answer.