title: How to convert time object into total minutes python
body: <p>I have objects of the form '00:00:00.0000000' from which I simply want to extract a float number of minutes.  From <code>import time</code> I so far have this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; reformat = time.strptime('00:05:36.0100000', '%H:%M:%S.%f0')
  &gt;&gt;&gt; print reformat
  time.struct_time(tm_year=1900, tm_mon=1, tm_mday=1, tm_hour=0, tm_min=5, tm_sec=36, tm_wday=0, tm_yday=1, tm_isdst=-1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It seems like this should follow with something like <code>time.getminutes(reformat)</code> or <code>reformat.minutes()</code> and voila.  I can't find such an operation.</p>