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Python Dates and Times in Python Dates and Times Timedelta Minute

Jason Smith
Jason Smith
6,946 Points
Posted by Jason Smith
Jason Smith
6,946 Points

name 'timedelta' is not defined. Any hints? Help appreciated

i imported the library, so i'm not sure why it doesn't accept what i gave it.

minutes.py 
import datetime
def minutes(datetime_1,datetime_2):
    seconds_1 = timedelta.totalseconds(datetime_1)
    seconds_2 = timedelta.totalseconds(datetime_2)
    return round((seconds_2 - seconds_1) / 60)

2 Answers

Jason Smith
Jason Smith
6,946 Points
Jason Smith
Jason Smith
6,946 Points

where did you get the value 5 from?

Mark Chesney
Mark Chesney
11,694 Points

5 was absolutely arbitrary; sorry for any confusion.

Two options for importing:

Option 1 (recommended): import the entire datetime module requires explicit datetime.timedelta below

 import datetime
def minutes(datetime_1,datetime_2):
    seconds_1 = datetime.timedelta.seconds(datetime_1)
...

Option 2: from the datetime module, importing only the timedelta class then timedelta on its own will work

from datetime import timedelta
def minutes(datetime_1,datetime_2):
    seconds_1 = timedelta.seconds(datetime_1)
...

Either way, seconds is a necessary attribute name, and totalseconds will not work.

Mark Chesney
Mark Chesney
11,694 Points
Mark Chesney
Mark Chesney
11,694 Points

Hi Jason,

I think I found the problem:

import datetime
seconds_1 = datetime.timedelta(seconds=5)

datetime is the module that contains the class timedelta. timedelta receives a parameter named seconds (among others)

You can see the docs here.