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How to convert timestamp string to datetime object in Python?


You can use the fromtimestamp function from the datetime module to get a date from a UNIX timestamp. This function takes the timestamp as input and returns the datetime object corresponding to the timestamp. 

 Example

import datetime
timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1500000000)
print(timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))

Output

This will give the output −

2017-07-14 08:10:00