python timestamp from datetime 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: timestamp to date python

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1586507536367
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

Example 3: 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 4: convert timestamp to date using python

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1545730073
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

print("dt_object =", dt_object)
print("type(dt_object) =", type(dt_object))

Example 5: python datetime to timestamp

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

Example 6: python convert timestamp to datetime

from datetime import datetime

timestamp = 1545730073
dt_object = datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

print("dt_object =", dt_object)
print("type(dt_object) =", type(dt_object))