I always forget how to create a datetime object from a formatted string in Python 2.4 (or earlier), where the datetime.strptime method doesn't exist. You can easily make it using the time module though...

Alternate datetime creation

# Do imports of these modules somewhere up top
import time, datetime

# timestring is a string containing the time and/or date you want to parse
# format is the time format to parse.
#    Reference: https://docs.python.org/2.6/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
mydatetime = datetime.datetime(*(time.strptime(timestring, format)[0:6]))