Convert Datetime in Epoch-Python

Question

I want to convert a datetime into epoch.

For example, I have datetime in this format: 2018-02-14T22:15:00.232029+01:00 .

How can I convert it into epoch? I get a lot of errors when i try to use datetime or timestamp in python,because of my datetime's format. Any ideas?

Answer 1

This is one way:

import pandas as pd

base = '1970-01-01'
x = '2018-02-14T22:15:00.232029+01:00'

(pd.to_datetime(x) - pd.to_datetime(base)).total_seconds()

# 1518642900.232029

Answer 2

Without using any external libraries:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%s.%f')
'1518655350.410295'