datetime to timestamp

[John Machin]

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