How bi-directional convert request data to Unix timestamp in Python?

[SkSeMi]

I have a string variable string of the date:
data = "24.01.2014 15:25:45"
How convert this data to Unix timestamp and back?
Which Python commands?
Thank you very much!

[bvdet]

This can be done with the time and datetime modules. Use time.strptime to create struct_time objects. Example:

timeObj = time.strptime(data, "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S")

To determine the difference between timeObj and a struct_time object you can create for the epoch, create a datetime.datetime object. Example:

dt1 = datetime.datetime(*timeObj[:6])

The difference is:

td1 = dt1-dt2

The seconds to the epoch is then:

td1.total_seconds()

To adjust for local time:

td1.total_seconds()+time.timezone

To convert back to a string representation:

time.strftime("%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S", timeObj)