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

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00:00 How Do I Get The Current Time In Milliseconds In Python?
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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 1003

Using time.time():

import time

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

Then:

>>> current_milli_time()
1378761833768

ANSWER 2

Score 91

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

ANSWER 3

Score 59

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

ANSWER 4

Score 34

Just sample code:

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

Output: 1534343781311