How to convert a long format Date to Human Readable format

Question

I have a time stamp in the format 20140110143000 I need to convert it into a human readble format.

I am using the following code:

time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(20140110143000))

But it is giving the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
    time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.localtime(20140110143000))
ValueError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Can any body please help me out?

Answer 1

coincidentally datetime objects prints timestamp in %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S format. So, for printing 20140110143000 in required format you can simply convert it to a datetime object and print it

from datetime import datetime
print datetime.strptime("20140110143000", "%Y%m%d%H%M%S")

output

2014-01-10 14:30:00