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Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
4,585 PointsChallenge Task 1 of 1 : Help needed.
Can someone tell me what is that I am doing wrong in the code?
The error message is : "Expected 7, got 1433"
import datetime
def minutes(datetime1,datetime2):
temp = datetime1 - datetime2
return round(temp.seconds/60)
1 Answer
Frederick Pearce
10,677 PointsYou are calculating the minutes based only on the seconds between datetime1 and datetime2, not the total time between them (i.e. you're neglecting the other instance attributes: days and microseconds). One alternative is to use the method that outputs total number of seconds (total_seconds()), such that
import datetime
def minutes(dt1, dt2):
return round((dt2 - dt1).total_seconds()/60)
Keerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
4,585 PointsKeerthi Suria Kumar Arumugam
4,585 PointsI was doing the other way round. dt1 - dt2 instead of dt2 - dt1. Anyway, your answer is the better one. Since it takes into account any hours, minutes and seconds. Thank you.