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

For Python2.7

You can format it into seconds and then multiply by 1000 to convert to millisecond.

from datetime import datetime

d = datetime.strptime("20.12.2016 09:38:42,76", "%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S,%f").strftime('%s')
d_in_ms = int(d)*1000
print(d_in_ms)

print(datetime.fromtimestamp(float(d)))

Output:

1482206922000
2016-12-20 09:38:42