Is there a library in Python that can convert user-dates to timestamp?

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Published on 2010-03-16T12:00:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 12:06 UTC
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If the month is: "12" Day is: "05" Year is: "2010"

Can this be converted into a timestamp somehow, in a very simple way?

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