python convert string datetime 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: python datetime to timestamp

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