Get current time in milliseconds in Python?

Using time.time():

import time

def current_milli_time():
    return round(time.time() * 1000)

Then:

>>> current_milli_time()
1378761833768

time.time() may only give resolution to the second, the preferred approach for milliseconds is datetime.

from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.now()
dt.microsecond

From version 3.7 you can use time.time_ns() to get time as passed nano seconds from epoch. So you can do

ms = time.time_ns() // 1_000_000

to get time in mili-seconds as integer.

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