Without the need of a separate library:

`def pretty_date(time=False): """ Get a datetime object or a int() Epoch timestamp and return a pretty string like 'an hour ago', 'Yesterday', '3 months ago', 'just now', etc """ from datetime import datetime now = datetime.now() if type(time) is int: diff = now - datetime.fromtimestamp(time) elif isinstance(time,datetime): diff = now - time elif not time: diff = now - now second_diff = diff.seconds day_diff = diff.days

if day_diff < 0:
    return ''

if day_diff == 0:
    if second_diff < 10:
        return "just now"
    if second_diff < 60:
        return str(second_diff) + " seconds ago"
    if second_diff < 120:
        return "a minute ago"
    if second_diff < 3600:
        return str(second_diff / 60) + " minutes ago"
    if second_diff < 7200:
        return "an hour ago"
    if second_diff < 86400:
        return str(second_diff / 3600) + " hours ago"
if day_diff == 1:
    return "Yesterday"
if day_diff < 7:
    return str(day_diff) + " days ago"
if day_diff < 31:
    return str(day_diff / 7) + " weeks ago"
if day_diff < 365:
    return str(day_diff / 30) + " months ago"
return str(day_diff / 365) + " years ago"`