title: Converting unix timestamp string to readable date
body: <p>I have a string representing a unix timestamp (i.e. &quot;1284101485&quot;) in Python, and I'd like to convert it to a readable date. When I use <code>time.strftime</code>, I get a <code>TypeError</code>:</p>
  <pre class="lang-python prettyprint-override"><code>&gt;&gt;&gt;import time
  &gt;&gt;&gt;print time.strftime(&quot;%B %d %Y&quot;, &quot;1284101485&quot;)
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File &quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;, line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  TypeError: argument must be 9-item sequence, not str
  </code></pre>