How to get the seconds since epoch from the time + date output of gmtime()?

Question

How do you do reverse gmtime(), where you put the time + date and get the number of seconds?

I have strings like \'Jul 9, 2009 @ 20:02:58 UTC\'

Answer 1

t = datetime.strptime('Jul 9, 2009 @ 20:02:58 UTC',"%b %d, %Y @ %H:%M:%S %Z")