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Christine Maxwell
Courses Plus Student 5,103 Pointsminutes.py challenge
Please help me with this challenge
import datetime
def minutes(t1, t2):
t1 = datetime.datetime.now()
t2 = datetime.datetime.now()
deff = datetime.timedelta(t2-t1)
return round(deff.minute)
3 Answers
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou don't make a timedelta with math like that. The act of doing math with two datetimes will make the timedelta directly (kinda like how 2 + 2 makes an int directly). So, change your deff line for that.
And, secondly, timedeltas don't have a minute attribute. They have a seconds attribute, though, so you'll need to turn seconds into minutes before you do the rounding.
Jamison Imhoff
12,460 PointsI had issues with this code challenge as well. After some searching I came across a solution that worked for me:
import datetime
def minutes(datetime1, datetime2):
return int((datetime2-datetime1).seconds/60)
the int() is there because it returns a float without making it into an integer (5.0 instead of 5 minutes)
Hope this helps! If you need help explaining this just let me know!
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherHey, thanks for pointing that it. This challenge shouldn't be solvable with int() so I've gone and corrected it.
Jamison Imhoff
12,460 PointsSince I used that method to solve it, what exactly should the solution be? I couldn't seem to find another way around it.
Christine Maxwell
Courses Plus Student 5,103 Pointsstick round instead of int in there and works just fine ;)