How to convert a time string to seconds?

Question

I need to convert time value strings given in the following format to seconds, for example:

1.\'00:00:00,000\' -> 0 seconds

2.\'00:00:10,000\' -> 10 s         


        

Answer 1

A little more pythonic way I think would be:

timestr = '00:04:23'

ftr = [3600,60,1]

sum([a*b for a,b in zip(ftr, map(int,timestr.split(':')))])

Output is 263Sec.

I would be interested to see if anyone could simplify it further.