Convert QDate to seconds
I take date from QDateTimeEdit and convert it to seconds like this: import time from datetime import datetime date = self.__ui.dateTimeEdit.date().toString("dd/MM/yy") dateString = str(date) seconds = time.mktime(datetime.strptime(dateString, "%d/%m/%y").timetuple()) This works well, but since it looks to long to me, my question is: Is it possible to convert self.__ui.dateTimeEdit.date() directly, without those string conversions? EDIT1 Unfortunately toMSecsSinceEpoch() as falsetru suggested, doesn't work for me. AttributeError: 'QDateTime' object has no attribute 'toMSecsSinceEpoch' I'm using