Hey, I think this should do what you want:
import datetime
time_str = "10-29-2019 02:32"
time_str1 = time_str.split(" ")
time_str = (time_str1[0]+'T'+time_str1[1]+':00Z') #convert time to utc string format
strip = datetime.datetime.strptime(time_str,'%m-%d-%YT%H:%M:%SZ') #convert string to datetime object