I have a JSON object with a date that returns
print row['ApplicationReceivedDateTime'] /Date(1454475600000)/ how do I process this using the pythons datetime module?
print type(row['ApplicationReceivedDateTime']) returns <type 'unicode'>
print repr(row['ApplicationReceivedDateTime'])
returns u'/Date(1454475600000)/'
That looks like milliseconds. Try dividing by 1000.
import datetime as dt >>> dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(1454475600000 / 1000) datetime.datetime(2016, 2, 2, 21, 0) If the date is in the string format per your question, extract the numeric portion using re.
date = '/Date(1454475600000)/' >>> dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(re.findall(r"\d+", date)[0]) / 1000) datetime.datetime(2016, 2, 2, 21, 0) 
epoch = int(re.sub("[^\d\.]", "", a))/1000You probably want
datetime.datetime.strptime(string_date, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f") And the values of Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second and F, for that you can write a manual function for that like this
def generate_date_time_str(date_str): """Login to parse the date str""" return date_str the date_str will look link this
"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f"
There is no python module directly convert any random date str to DateTime object
You can use re to get the integer value and then use datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp to get the date value:
from datetime import datetime import re string_time = row['ApplicationReceivedDateTime'] parsed_time = int(re.search('\((\d+)\)', string_time)[1]) / 1e3 #1e3 == 1000 rcvd_date = datetime.fromtimestamp(parsed_time) print(rcvd_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')) Prints:
'2016-02-03 05:00:00' 
print repr(row['ApplicationReceivedDateTime']).