what is the inverse of time.asctime in Python

Question

I have a 24-character string and want to get the tuple.

E.g.:

'Fri Apr 25 12:24:47 2014'

(via time.ctime(time.time()))

Answer 1

time.strptime() parses strings into time tuples again; the default parse format matches the output of time.ctime() and time.asctime():

>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(time.time())
'Fri Apr 25 12:12:06 2014'
>>> time.strptime(time.ctime(time.time()))
time.struct_time(tm_year=2014, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=25, tm_hour=12, tm_min=12, tm_sec=10, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=115, tm_isdst=-1)
>>> time.strptime(time.asctime())
time.struct_time(tm_year=2014, tm_mon=4, tm_mday=25, tm_hour=12, tm_min=13, tm_sec=6, tm_wday=4, tm_yday=115, tm_isdst=-1)