Going from twitter date to Python datetime date

Writing something like this should convert a twitter date to a timestamp.

import time

ts = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', time.strptime(tweet['created_at'],'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y'))

UPDATE

For Python 3, as per 2020, you can do it in this way:

from datetime import datetime

# dtime = tweet['created_at']
dtime="Fri Oct 09 10:01:41 +0000 2015"
new_datetime = datetime.strftime(datetime.strptime(dtime,'%a %b %d %H:%M:%S +0000 %Y'), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
print((new_datetime))