Converting datetime to POSIX time

Question

How do I convert a datetime or date object into a POSIX timestamp in python? There are methods to create a datetime object out of a timestamp, but I don\'t seem to find any obv

Answer 1

For UTC calculations, calendar.timegm is the inverse of time.gmtime.

import calendar, datetime
d = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
print calendar.timegm(d.timetuple())