need to print seconds from the epoch including the millisecond

matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 27 10:43:13 EST 2013


On Thursday, December 26, 2013 8:29:15 PM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <59aa73ac-e06e-4c0e-83a4-147ac42cad2e at googlegroups.com>,
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>  matt.doolittle33 at gmail.com wrote:
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> > > In [1]: import time
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> > > In [2]: time.time()
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> > > Out[2]: 1388085670.1567955
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> > 
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> > OK i did what you said but I am only getting 2 decimal places.  
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> > Why is this and what can I do to get the millisecond?  
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> 
> What operating system are you on?  The Python time routines can only 
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> return as much precision as the operating system makes available.

I use Ubuntu 12.10.  Thanks!



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