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Python Dates and Times in Python (2014) Dates and Times Timedelta Minute

Posted by Ethan Pyles
Ethan Pyles
2,710 Points

Bummer: Got the wrong number of minutes. Expected 1507, got 1373.

I am not sure why the answer could be different or why a single answer is actually expected. The arguments for minutes function are not defined.

minutes.py 
import datetime

def minutes(t1, t2):
    td = t1 - t2
    td_minutes = (td.seconds)/60
    return round(td_minutes)

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,744 Points

You don't see the arguments, but the challenge supplies some when it calls your function and checks for the correct result.

The instructions mentioned using the ".total_seconds()" method to get the complete delta, but this code has just "seconds". Also, the second date will be the later one, so the first one should be subtracted from it.