How can I add N milliseconds to a datetime in Python

Question

I\'m setting a datetime var as such:

fulldate = datetime.datetime.strptime(date + \' \' + time, \"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f\")

where date and time a

Answer 1

Use timedelta

To increment by 500 ms:

fulldate = datetime.datetime.strptime(date + ' ' + time, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f")
fulldate = fulldate + datetime.timedelta(milliseconds=500)

You can use it to increment minutes, hours, days etc. Documentation:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#timedelta-objects

Answer 2

use timedelta:

timedelta(microseconds=1000) #1 milli second