What is the easiest way to get current GMT time in Unix timestamp format?

Question

Python provides different packages (datetime, time, calendar) as can be seen here in order to deal with time. I made a big mistake by

Answer 1

Or just simply using the datetime standard module

In [2]: from datetime import timezone, datetime
   ...: int(datetime.now(tz=timezone.utc).timestamp() * 1000)
   ...: 
Out[2]: 1514901741720

You can truncate or multiply depending on the resolution you want. This example is outputting millis.

If you want a proper Unix timestamp (in seconds) remove the * 1000