Is there a library in Python that can convert user-dates to timestamp?

Question

If the month is: "12" Day is: "05" Year is: "2010"

Can this be converted into a timestamp somehow, in a very simple way?

Answer 1

import datetime

d = datetime.datetime(year=2010,day=5,month=12)

d
datetime.datetime(2010, 12, 5, 0, 0)

Answer 2

You can use the datetime module:

import datetime

d = datetime.date(year, month, day)

At this point, d is a date object.

If you want a timestamp from that, you can do the following:

import time

timestamp = time.mktime(d.timetuple())

Answer 3

import time

>>> time.mktime((2010,12,5,0,0,0,0,0,0))
1291500000.0

Answer 4

In the interest of showing a man how to fish vs giving a man a fish...

A good starting point for these sorts of questions is the Python library documentation. If you look on that page for the word "date" you will easily find the datetime module.