Use this snippet to convert a datetime.datetime
object into a float
(like the one time.time()
returns) in Python 2.x:
from datetime import datetime import time dt = datetime.now() timestamp = time.mktime(dt.timetuple()) + dt.microsecond/1e6
After running this, timestamp will be 1563812373.1795
for example.
or use this function:
from datetime import datetime import time def datetime_to_timestamp(dt): return time.mktime(dt.timetuple()) + dt.microsecond/1e6
In Python 3, you can simply use
dt.timestamp()
but that is not supported in Python 2.