datetime to timestamp

[John Machin]

On 11/08/2006 11:35 PM, John Machin wrote:
> On 11/08/2006 11:10 PM, Simen Haugen wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> How can I convert a python datetime to a timestamp? It's easy to convert
>> a timestamp to datetime (datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(), but the
>> other way around...?)
>>
>> -Simen
>>
> 
> Is the timetuple() method what you want?
> 
> #>>> import datetime
> #>>> n = datetime.datetime.now()
> #>>> n
> datetime.datetime(2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 109000)
> #>>> n.timetuple()
> (2006, 8, 11, 23, 32, 43, 4, 223, -1)


Aaaarrrggghhh no it's not what you want -- looks like you have to do the 
arithmetic yourself, starting with toordinal()