How to get timestamp in nanoseconds in Python 3?

Question

import time
print(time.time())

This gives me output:

1590683242.8507078

Desired output is 19-digit long nanosecond Unix timestamp.

Does this answer your question? [Get POSIX/Unix time in seconds and nanoseconds in Python?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2394485/get-posix-unix-time-in-seconds-and-nanoseconds-in-python) — NewPythonUser, May 28 '20 at 16:36

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '20 at 16:37

2

Use

import time
print(time.time_ns())

answered May 28 '20 at 16:37

Balaji Ambresh

NiKS · Answer 2 · 2020-05-28T16:43:33.003

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You can use time.time_ns() method of Time module.

import time
print(time.time_ns())

edited May 28 '20 at 16:43

answered May 28 '20 at 16:35

NiKS

It shows "time has no attribute time_ns() – Krunal Mahant May 28 '20 at 16:49
Have you imported the time module like this, or have you accidentally imported the time function from time module ? – NiKS May 28 '20 at 16:53
Upgrading from python3.6 to 3.7 worked. Thanks !! – Krunal Mahant May 28 '20 at 16:58

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 28 '20 at 16:36

1

time.time_ns()

Similar to time() but returns time as an integer number of nanoseconds since the epoch.

answered May 28 '20 at 16:36

balderman

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 28 '20 at 16:36

1

import time
print(time.time_ns())

1590683731073953000

answered May 28 '20 at 16:36

Terry Spotts

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