How can I parse a time string containing milliseco

Question

I am able to parse strings containing date/time with time.strptime

>>> import time
>>> time.strptime('30/03/09 16:31:32', '%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S')
(2009, 3, 30, 16, 31, 32, 0, 89, -1)

How can I parse a time string that contains milliseconds?

>>> time.strptime('30/03/09 16:31:32.123', '%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/_strptime.py", line 333, in strptime
    data_string[found.end():])
ValueError: unconverted data remains: .123

Answer 1

My first thought was to try passing it '30/03/09 16:31:32.123' (with a period instead of a colon between the seconds and the milliseconds.) But that didn't work. A quick glance at the docs indicates that fractional seconds are ignored in any case...

Ah, version differences. This was reported as a bug and now in 2.6+ you can use "%S.%f" to parse it.