Hi.
How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the
other way around...?)
-Simen 5 117777
On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
Hi.
How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the
other way around...?)
-Simen
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
#>>import datetime
#>>n = datetime.datetime.now()
#>>n
datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
#>>n.timetuple()
(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
Cheers,
John
On 11/08/2006 11:35 PM, John Machin wrote:
On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
>Hi.
How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the other way around...?)
-Simen
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
#>>import datetime
#>>n = datetime.datetime.now()
#>>n
datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
#>>n.timetuple()
(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want -- looks like you have to do the
arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()
John Machin <sj******@lexicon.netwrote:
>On 11/08/2006 11:35 PM, John Machin wrote:
>On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
>>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the other way around...?)
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
[ ... ] Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want -- [ ... ]
It is if you only want it to the second. It just needs a time.mktime():
>>n = time.time() n
1155307613.4550381
>>d = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(n) time.mktime(d.timetuple())
1155307613.0
(timetuple() is responsible for the loss of the fractional part.)
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[Simen Haugen]
>>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the other way around...?)
[John Machin]
>Is the timetuple() method what you want?
#>>import datetime #>>n = datetime.datetime.now() #>>n datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000) #>>n.timetuple() (2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
[also John]
Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want
Yes, it is ;-)
-- looks like you have to do the arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()
It's just one step from the time tuple:
import time
time.mktime(some_datetime_object.timetuple())
The datetime module intended to be an island of relative sanity.
Because the range of dates "timestamps" can represent varies across
platforms (and even "the epoch" varies), datetime doesn't even try to
produce timestamps directly -- datetime is more of an alternative to
"seconds from the epoch" schemes. Because datetime objects have
greater range and precision than timestamps, conversion is
problem-free in only one direction. It's not a coincidence that
that's the only direction datetime supplies ;-)
Tim Peters wrote:
[Simen Haugen]
>How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the other way around...?)
[John Machin]
Is the timetuple() method what you want?
#>>import datetime
#>>n = datetime.datetime.now()
#>>n
datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
#>>n.timetuple()
(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)
[also John]
Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want
Yes, it is ;-)
-- looks like you have to do the arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()
It's just one step from the time tuple:
import time
time.mktime(some_datetime_object.timetuple())
Thanks, Tim. In mitigation, yer honour, I'd like to draw your attention
to the local time (23:32); the defendant was rushing to do the OP's
RTFantasticM for him before retiring for the night, and not doing it
well enough :-)
Cheers,
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