How to preserve timezone when parsing date/time strings with strptime()?

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I have a CSV dumpfile from a Blackberry IPD backup, created using IPDDump.
The date/time strings in here look something like this
(where EST is an Australian time-zone):

Tue Jun 22 07:46:22 EST 2010

I need to be able to parse this date in Python. At first, I tried to use the strptime() function from datettime.

>>> datetime.datetime.strptime('Tue Jun 22 12:10:20 2010 EST', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y %Z')

However, for some reason, the datetime object that comes back doesn’t seem to have any tzinfo associated with it.

I did read on this page that apparently datetime.strptime silently discards tzinfo, however, I checked the documentation, and I can’t find anything to that effect documented here.

Is there any way to get strptime() to play nicely with timezones?

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