How do I get the current time in milliseconds in Python?

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5998...

Accepted answer links:
[time.time()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.h...

Answer 2 links:
[time.time_ns()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.h...

Answer 3 links:
[time.time()]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.h...
[datetime]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/dateti...

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

import time

def current_milli_time():
    return round(time.time() * 1000)

Then:

>>> current_milli_time()
1378761833768

time.time() may only give resolution to the second, the preferred approach for milliseconds is datetime.

from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime.now()
dt.microsecond

def TimestampMillisec64():
    return int((datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1)).total_seconds() * 1000)

Just sample code:

import time
timestamp = int(time.time()*1000.0)

Output: 1534343781311