Using f with strftime in Python to get microseconds

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I m trying to use strftime   to microsecond precision  which seems possible using  f  as stated here   However when I try the following code   import time import strftime from time  print strftime   H  M  S  f        I get the hour  the minutes and the seconds  but  f prints as  f  with no sign of the microseconds  I m running Python 2 6 5 on Ubuntu  so it should be fine and  f should be supported  it s supported for 2 6 and above  as far as I know

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With Python s time module you can t get microseconds with  f   For those who still want to go with time module only  here is a workaround   now   time time   mlsec   repr now  split      1   3  print time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S     Z  format mlsec   time localtime now     You should get something like 2017-01-16 16 42 34 625 EET  yes  I use milliseconds as it s fairly enough    To break the code into details  paste the below code into a Python console   import time    Get current timestamp now   time time      Debug now now print now type now     Debug strf time struct now   time localtime now  print struct now type struct now     Print nicely formatted date print time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S  Z   struct now     Get miliseconds mlsec   repr now  split      1   3  print mlsec    Get your required timestamp string timestamp   time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S     Z  format mlsec   struct now  print timestamp   For clarification purposes  I also paste my Python 2 7 12 result here    gt  gt  gt  import time  gt  gt  gt    get current timestamp     now   time time    gt  gt  gt    debug now     now 1484578293 519106  gt  gt  gt  print now 1484578293 52  gt  gt  gt  type now   lt type  float  gt   gt  gt  gt    debug strf time     struct now   time localtime now   gt  gt  gt  print struct now time struct time tm year 2017  tm mon 1  tm mday 16  tm hour 16  tm min 51  tm sec 33  tm wday 0  tm yday 16  tm isdst 0   gt  gt  gt  type struct now   lt type  time struct time  gt   gt  gt  gt    print nicely formatted date     print time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S  Z   struct now  2017-01-16 16 51 33 EET  gt  gt  gt    get miliseconds     mlsec   repr now  split      1   3   gt  gt  gt  print mlsec 519  gt  gt  gt    get your required timestamp string     timestamp   time strftime   Y- m- d  H  M  S     Z  format mlsec   struct now   gt  gt  gt  print timestamp 2017-01-16 16 51 33 519 EET  gt  gt  gt

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You can also get microsecond precision from the time module using its time   function   time time   returns the time in seconds since epoch  Its fractional part is the time in microseconds  which is what you want     gt  gt  gt  from time import time  gt  gt  gt  time       1310554308 287459     the fractional part is what you want      comparision with strftime -  gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt  from time import time  gt  gt  gt  datetime now   strftime   f    time         287389   1310554310 287459

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You are looking at the wrong documentation  The time module has different documentation    You can use the datetime module strftime like this    gt  gt  gt  from datetime import datetime  gt  gt  gt   gt  gt  gt  now   datetime now    gt  gt  gt  now strftime   H  M  S  f    12 19 40 948000

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This should do the work  import datetime datetime datetime now   strftime   H  M  S  f     It will print   HH MM SS microseconds like this e g 14 38 19 425961

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When the   f  for micro seconds isn t working  please use the following method   import datetime  def getTimeStamp        dt   datetime datetime now       return dt strftime   Y j H M S     str dt microsecond

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If you want an integer  try this code   import datetime print datetime datetime now   strftime   s f    13     Output   1545474382803

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If you want speed  try this   def  timestamp prec 0       t   time time       s   time strftime   H  M  S   time localtime t       if prec  gt  0          s        9f     t   1    1 2 prec      return s   Where prec is precision -- how many decimal places you want  Please note that the function does not have issues with leading zeros in fractional part like some other solutions presented here

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You can use datetime s strftime function to get this  The problem is that time s strftime accepts a timetuple that does not carry microsecond information   from datetime import datetime datetime now   strftime   H  M  S  f     Should do the trick

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