Python: Formatting time for influxdb

Question

I want to input a date/time into influx db from python but not sure how to do this. Python code datetime.datetime.now() currently gives out a format like this : 2018-06-25 13:59:36.698000.

I know this format is accepted by influx "1529932431998" which is "2018-06-25T13:13:51.998Z" or "0x1643714427e". Any ideas how i can get python to give me 11 digit number from python?

Thanks

Answer 1

Looks like you need epoch time.

Try:

import datetime
import time
print( time.mktime(datetime.datetime.now().timetuple()) )

Output:

1529932959.0