How to convert string into epoch time

Question

I tried to convert a string into epoch time in the following code :

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser

dt = '2018-07-011 00:00:00'
dt = parser.parse(dt)
print(dt)

print (datetime(dt).timestamp())

But it gives the error:

print (datetime(dt).timestamp())
   TypeError: an integer is required (got type datetime.datetime)

how do I convert it without any error?

Answer 1

you are passing the parsed datetime object to the datetime constructor(datetime(dt))which expects integers.

 use your data time instance as :

print (dt.timestamp())

From the docs:

Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the datetime instance.