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# Python time mktime() Function

## Description:

This function is the inverse function of localtime(). Its argument is the struct_time or full 9-tuple and it returns a floating point number, for compatibility with time().

If the input value cannot be represented as a valid time, either OverflowError or ValueError will be raised.

## Syntax:

    time.mktime(t)

## Parameters:

Here is the detail of parameters:

- t: This is the struct_time or full 9-tuple.

## Example:

    #!/usr/bin/python
    import time

    t = (2009, 2, 17, 17, 3, 38, 1, 48, 0)
    secs = time.mktime( t )
    print "time.mktime(t) : %f" %  secs
    print "asctime(localtime(secs)): %s" % time.asctime(time.localtime(secs))

This produces following result:

    time.mktime(t) : 1234915418.000000
    asctime(localtime(secs)): Tue Feb 17 17:03:38 2009

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