Converting Epoch DateTime to Byte Array in Python

Question

I am trying to convert epoch datetime to byte array in python but it is coming as 10 Byte, it should come in 4 Byte.

from time import time
curTime = int(time.time())
b = bytearray(str(curTime))
len(b)                 #comming as 10

Can any one help where i am wrong

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:32:56Z

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You are converting the string representation of the timestamp, not the integer.

What you need is this function:

struct.pack_into(fmt, buffer, offset, v1, v2, ...) It's documented at http://docs.python.org/library/struct.html near the top.

import struct
from time import time
curTime = int(time())
b = struct.pack(">i", curTime)
len(b)    # 4

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