We can convert a datetime value in to decimal using following function.
import time
from datetime import datetime
t = datetime.now()
t1 = t.timetuple()
print time.mktime(t1)
Output :
Out[9]: 1395136322.0
Similarly is there a way to convert strings in to a decimal using python?.
Example string.
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0"
If you want an integer to uniquely identify a string, I'd go for hashing functions, like SHA. They return the same value for the same input.
import hashlib
def sha256_hash_as_int(s):
return int(hashlib.sha256(s).hexdigest(), 16)
If you use Python 3, you first have to encode s to some concrete encoding, like UTF-8.
Furthermore, take a look at the hashlib module and decide if you really need an integer, or if the output of hexdigest() isn't OK for you, too.
hash(s) isn't constant between different Python versions and even between different Python sessions (newer Python versions only, due to hash randomization). The hashlib functions are designed to always give the same output for the same input.You can use hash function:
>>> hash("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0")
1892010093
hash might not be always the same for the same string. If hash randomization is turned on different executions of the interpreter will result in different hashes.
time.mktime(). It returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970. Thus instead of representing dates as (day, month, year) since Jesus, it represents times/dates as seconds since 1970. There's not really an analogous representation for arbitrary strings.