[Python-Dev] timelocal

[Guido van Rossum]

> I noticed that there doesn't currently seem to be a
> function that takes a tuple of date information (like
> that returned by localtime()) and turns it into a
> Unix time -- effectively, the reverse operation to
> localtime() or gmtime().

To go from a local time tuple to Unix time, there's time.mktime().
To go from a gm time tuple to Unix time, there's calendar.timegm().
(The latter only exists in the CVS version.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)