In Python, if I have a unix timestamp, how do I insert that into a MySQL datetime field?

Question

I am using Python MySQLDB, and I want to insert this into DATETIME field in Mysql . How do I do that with cursor.execute?

Answer 1

To convert from a UNIX timestamp to a Python datetime object, use datetime.fromtimestamp() (documentation).

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(0)
datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1, 1, 0)
>>> datetime.fromtimestamp(1268816500)
datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 17, 10, 1, 40)

From Python datetime to UNIX timestamp:

>>> import time
>>> time.mktime(datetime(2010, 3, 17, 10, 1, 40).timetuple())
1268816500.0