Convert python datetime to timestamp in milliseconds

Question

How to convert a human readable time with the format 20.12.2016 09:38:42,76 to Unix timestamps in milliseconds? I found a lot of similar questi

Answer 1

You need to parse your time format using strptime.

>>> import time
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> ts, ms = '20.12.2016 09:38:42,76'.split(',')
>>> ts
'20.12.2016 09:38:42'
>>> ms
'76'
>>> dt = datetime.strptime(ts, '%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S')
>>> time.mktime(dt.timetuple())*1000 + int(ms)*10
1482223122760.0