Going from twitter date to Python datetime date

Question

I am receiving twitter messages that are sent at a certain date in the following format from twitter:

Tue Mar 29 08:11:25 +0000 2011

I want

Answer 1

How about this? It doesn't need any formatting strings.

import datetime
from email.utils import mktime_tz, parsedate_tz

def parse_datetime(value):
    time_tuple = parsedate_tz(value)
    timestamp = mktime_tz(time_tuple)

    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

print(parse_datetime('Tue Mar 29 08:11:25 +0000 2011'))
#2011-03-29 10:11:25

My system is at GMT +2 hence the difference included.