How to get UTC time in Python?

Question

I\'ve search a bunch on StackExchange for a solution but nothing does quite what I need. In JavaScript, I\'m using the following to calculate UTC time since Jan 1st 1970:

Answer 1

Timezone aware with zero external dependencies:

from datetime import datetime, timezone

def utc_now():
    return datetime.utcnow().replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)