In Python 3 this can be done in 2 steps:
datetime
objectdatetime
object by 1000 to convert it to milliseconds.For example like this:
from datetime import datetime
dt_obj = datetime.strptime('20.12.2016 09:38:42,76',
'%d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S,%f')
millisec = dt_obj.timestamp() * 1000
print(millisec)
Output:
1482223122760.0
strptime
accepts your timestring and a format string as input. The timestring (first argument) specifies what you actually want to convert to a datetime
object. The format string (second argument) specifies the actual format of the string that you have passed.
Here is the explanation of the format specifiers from the official documentation:
%d
- Day of the month as a zero-padded decimal number.%m
- Month as a zero-padded decimal number.%Y
- Year with century as a decimal number%H
- Hour (24-hour clock) as a zero-padded decimal number.%M
- Minute as a zero-padded decimal number.%S
- Second as a zero-padded decimal number.%f
- Microsecond as a decimal number, zero-padded on the left.