timestamp in python from string 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: 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)