extract date from timestamp 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: how to get date in numbers using python

from datetime import datetime
shortDate = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d')