timestamp conversion in python 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: 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 3: 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 4: python convert date to timestamp

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