Question

I have a query that returns a date time in sql, example:

+---------------------+
| created             |
+---------------------+
| 2008-07-31 21:42:52 |
+---------------------+

In my python code I am doing the following to capture the data by calling the query. Here is my python code:

query_item_created_f = None
                    query_item_created_f = query_item_created.format(parent_id=question_id)
                    self.dbCursor.execute(query_item_created_f)
                    created_date = self.dbCursor.fetchall()
                    print created_date

I get the data and time in following format:

({'created': datetime.datetime(2008, 7, 31, 21, 42, 52)},)

How can I change this to unix data time?

Answer 1

Call the .timetuple() method on the datetime.datetime object, pass that to time.mktime() to create a UNIX timestamp:

>>> import datetime
>>> dt = datetime.datetime(2008, 7, 31, 21, 42, 52)
>>> import time
>>> time.mktime(dt.timetuple())
1217533372.0