Convert string date to timestamp in Python

python datetime

Shankar Cabus · Mar 9, 2012 · Viewed 481.7k times · Source

How to convert a string in the format "%d/%m/%Y" to timestamp?

"01/12/2011" -> 1322697600

Answer

>>> import time
>>> import datetime
>>> s = "01/12/2011"
>>> time.mktime(datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%d/%m/%Y").timetuple())
1322697600.0