python convert date and time to timestamp code example

Example 1: timestamp python

from datetime import datetime

# current date and time
now = datetime.now()

timestamp = datetime.timestamp(now)
print("timestamp =", timestamp)

Example 2: convert to timestamp 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 3: timestamp to date python

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1586507536367
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

Example 4: python datetime to timestamp

import datetime
now = datetime.datetime.today()
timestamp = datetime.datetime.timestamp(now)

Example 5: python convert ftp timestamp to datetime

from dateutil import parser

# ...

lines = []
ftp.dir("", lines.append)

latest_time = None
latest_name = None

for line in lines:
    tokens = line.split(maxsplit = 9)
    time_str = tokens[5] + " " + tokens[6] + " " + tokens[7]
    time = parser.parse(time_str)
    if (latest_time is None) or (time > latest_time):
        latest_name = tokens[8]
        latest_time = time

print(latest_name)