convert a string into epoch time

Question

I tried to convert a string into epoch time but failed.

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser

dt = '2017-01-01 00:00:00'
dt = parser.parse(dt)
print(dt)

print (datetime(dt).timestamp())

Here is error:

 print (datetime(dt).timestamp())
   TypeError: an integer is required (got type datetime.datetime)

dt is already a datetime object so you can just call the timestamp() method on dt: `dt.timestamp()` — Tim Woocker, Mar 28 '18 at 23:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '18 at 23:30

You only need to use your datetime instance:

print (dt.timestamp())

From the docs:

Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the datetime instance.

What you are currently doing is passing the parsed datetime object to the datetime constructor (datetime(dt))which expects integers.

convert a string into epoch time

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