timestamp – Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps

Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps.

class bson.timestamp.Timestamp(time, inc)

Create a new Timestamp.

This class is only for use with the MongoDB opLog. If you need to store a regular timestamp, please use a datetime.

Raises TypeError if time is not an instance of :class: int or datetime, or inc is not an instance of int. Raises ValueError if time or inc is not in [0, 2**32).

Parameters:
  • time: time in seconds since epoch UTC, or a naive UTC datetime, or an aware datetime
  • inc: the incrementing counter

  • as_datetime()

    Return a datetime instance corresponding to the time portion of this Timestamp.

    The returned datetime’s timezone is UTC.

  • inc

    Get the inc portion of this Timestamp.

  • time

    Get the time portion of this Timestamp.