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Asked: 2026-06-15T02:57:23+00:00

From python I am making a call to a remote API which returns data

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From python I am making a call to a remote API which returns data in a JSON format. I then parse the data using the json module with json.loads(). The problem I am having is with dates – the system I am calling returns the date formatted like the following:

/Date(1354011247940+0000)/

which json.parse just parses out as a string. How can I convert this to a python date time object?

Edit: unlike Convert JSON to Python object: how to handle DateTime conversion?, I have no control over the data being sent, so I can not simply change the format prior to serializing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should get unix timestamp with a regex from this date, then use datetime module to convert it to readable format:

    >m = re.search(r"Date\((\d+)\+", 'Date(1354011247940+0000)')
>print(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(int(m.group(1))/1000.0).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))
2012-11-27 12:14:07

    UPD: note , that you also have milliseconds in this date, they will be truncated by this code

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