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Basically what the title says. This is a more theoretical question than anything, I don't have a specific use for it. I've looked up the documentation and I can't find a definite answer.

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Why not try it and find out? –  jonrsharpe Feb 26 at 10:18

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As indicated by the python docs:

classmethod date.fromtimestamp(timestamp)

Return the local date corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, such as is returned by time.time(). This may raise ValueError, if the timestamp is out of the range of values supported by the platform C localtime() function. It’s common for this to be restricted to years from 1970 through 2038. Note that on non-POSIX systems that include leap seconds in their notion of a timestamp, leap seconds are ignored by fromtimestamp().

So yes, it does return a datetime object.

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