title: Parsing date/time string with timezone abbreviated name in Python?
body: <p>I'm trying to parse timestamp strings like <code>"Sat, 11/01/09 8:00PM EST"</code> in Python, but I'm having trouble finding a solution that will handle the abbreviated timezone.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using <a href="http://labix.org/python-dateutil" rel="noreferrer"><code>dateutil</code></a>'s <code>parse()</code> function, but it doesn't parse the timezone. Is there an easy way to do this?</p>