datetime - Convert string date to timestamp in Python

Question

How to convert a string in the format "%d/%m/%Y" to timestamp?

"01/12/2011" -> 1322697600

Answer 1

>>> import time
>>> import datetime
>>> s = "01/12/2011"
>>> time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%d/%m/%Y").timetuple())
1322697600.0