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

Best conversion from posix/epoch to datetime timestamp and the reverse:

this_time = datetime.datetime.utcnow() # datetime.datetime type
epoch_time = this_time.timestamp()      # posix time or epoch time
this_time = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(epoch_time)