J. R. DePriest    :EA DATA. SF:Apr 2

I'm writing Python and I'm not a Python person.

I have a need to get a Unix timestamp of a time that is an arbitrary number of days ago.

In PowerShell, you can do something like this:

PS > Get-Date -Date (Get-Date).AddDays(-30) -UFormat %s

In Python, this is the best I came up with and it is ugly:

import re
import datetime

`int(re.split('\\.',str((datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC) - datetime.timedelta(days=30)).timestamp()))[0])`

That was from me reading module documentation and hacking away at it for a bit.

Surely, there is a better way.

I'm interfacing with an API that only takes datetime in Unix Time format and only down to the second in precision.

#Python #DateTime #UnixTime #EpochTime

Show threadIronCladLou

@jrdepriest datetimes in python are powerful, but a bit verbose and sometimes messy. But, I think yours can be streamlined a bit.
I may be missing something, but unsure why you need the regex in there?

import datetime

ts = int((datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.timedelta(days=30)).timestamp())

Apr 2 at 2:28pmWeb