Convert datetime.datetime object to days since epoch in Python

Question

I\'ve got a pandas.Series object that might look like this:

import pandas as pd
myVar = pd.Series([\"VLADIVOSTOK 690090\", \"MAHE\", NaN, NaN, \         


        

Answer 1

You can convert this to seconds since epoch first, then divide it out by the amount of seconds in a day (86,400 seconds in a day). Please note the integer division here - will not return a float.

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
seconds = now.strftime("%s") # seconds since epoch
days = int(seconds) / 86400 # days since epoch

I added the import and now as an example of a datetime object I can play with.