python convert date string to timestamp code example

Example 1: 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 2: 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 3: python convert date to timestamp

import time
import datetime
s = "01/12/2011"
time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%d/%m/%Y").timetuple())