How to initialize a datetime.time object from a string?

Question

Is there a method like datetime.datetime.strptime(), that accepts a string like '16:00' and returns a datetime.time(16,0) object (i.e., an object that holds only time, not date)?

Edit: I could use datetime.datetime.strptime(), but it would return a datetime.datetime, and I want only time, not a date.

Answer 1

import datetime
import time
def datetimestrptime(time_string,time_fmt):
     t = time.strptime(time_string,time_fmt)
     return datetime.time(hour=t.tm_hour,minute=t.tm_min,second=t.tm_sec)
print datetimestrptime("16:00","%H:%M")
16:00:00