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Created June 14, 2012 05:46
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Convert RFC822 timestamp string to datetime object in Python
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rfc822-to-datetime.py
from datetime import datetime
import email
# convert RFC822 timestamp string to datetime object
def rfc822(timestamp):
return datetime.fromtimestamp(email.Utils.mktime_tz(email.Utils.parsedate_tz(timestamp)))
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
print rfc822(sys.argv[1])
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