Our first script will perform a common timestamp conversion that will prove useful throughout this book. Named unix_converter.py, this script converts Unix timestamps into a human readable date and time value. Unix timestamps are generally formatted as an integer representing the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00.
On line one, we provide a brief description of our script to the users, allowing them to quickly understand the intentions and uses of the script. Following this are import statements on lines two through four. These imports likely look familiar, providing support (in order) for printing information in Python 2 and 3, interpreting timestamp data, and accessing information about the version of Python used. The sys library is then used on lines 6 through 12 to check what version of Python was used to call the...
