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Convert (Unix) timestamp seconds to date and time string

The following code snippet illustrates use of fromtimestamp to convert unix time-stamp into string.
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# Python's program to convert (Unix) timestamp to date and time string.

from datetime import datetime

dateStr = datetime.fromtimestamp(1415419007).strftime("%A, %B %d, %Y %I:%M:%S")
print(type(dateStr))
print(dateStr)

Sample output of above program.
C:\programs\time>pep8 --first example9.py

C:\programs\time>python example9.py

Saturday, November 08, 2014 09:26:47

C:\programs\time>