get timestamp from time python code example

Example 1: get timestamp from string python

import datetime
date = '18/05/2020 - 18:05:12'

# convert string to datetimeformat
date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, "%d %m %Y - %H:%M:%S")

# convert datetime to timestamp
date = datetime.datetime.timestamp(date)

Example 2: timestamp in python

import time 
ts = time.time() 
// OR
import datetime; 
ct = datetime.datetime.now() 
ts = ct.timestamp()