argument must be 9-item sequence, not datetime.datetime

Question

Web app is breaking on the following line;

start_time = int(time.mktime(start)) * 1000

The error is a TypeError - argument must be 9-item sequence, not datetime.datetime

How to I convert my datetime.datetime to a 9-item-sequence?

Answer 1

Instead of passing datetime object directory, use datetime.timetuple method:

>>> int(time.mktime(start)) * 1000
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: argument must be 9-item sequence, not datetime.datetime

>>> int(time.mktime(start.timetuple())) * 1000
1406215043000L

BTW, if you use Python 3.3+, you don't need to use time.mktime. Use datetime.timestamp:

>>> start.timestamp()
1406215043.0
>>> int(start.timestamp()) * 1000
1406215043000