Converting unix timestamp string to readable date

Question

I have a string representing a unix timestamp (i.e. \"1284101485\") in Python, and I\'d like to convert it to a readable date. When I use time.strftime, I get a

Answer 1

i just successfully used:

>>> type(tstamp)
pandas.tslib.Timestamp
>>> newDt = tstamp.date()
>>> type(newDt)
datetime.date