I think it's a float, I see in the code
if request.method == "POST":
end_timestamp = request.POST.get('end_timestamp', None)
start_timestamp = request.POST.get('start_timestamp', None)
and in the debug of django
<QueryDict: {u'start_timestamp': [u'1378918630.398'],
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