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

Posted by John Williamson
John Williamson
15,024 Points

Minutes issue

I'm tripping... I feel like I'm close but pulling my hair out, code below

minutes.py 
def minutes(one, two):
    one = one.timedelta.total_seconds()
    two = two.timedelta.total_seconds()
    answer = two - one
    answer = answer / 60
    return round(answer)

1 Answer

Robin *
Robin *
5,670 Points
Robin *
Robin *
5,670 Points

when you're trying to one.timedelta.total_seconds() you're basicly trying to do datetime.datetime.timedelta.total_seconds which doesnt do anything. But if you do the subtraction first it turns into a timedelta. You can then use the total_seconds() method 

def minutes(one, two):
    answer = two - one
    answer = answer.total_seconds() / 60
    return round(answer)

I'm sorry if my answer is a little unclear. I'm learning this aswell and I'm not used to explain stuff like this : )