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

Posted by Henry Grigorovich
Henry Grigorovich
1,706 Points

timedelta

I understand what the question is asking here, I don't have an idea of how to approach the question. I started a for loop since the function takes multiple time deltas, so we need to retrieve seconds from both, matter of how is my first issue. After that I understand we are subtracting the greater from smaller, then results need to be rounded up to minutes but how can I separate the two so it subtracts correctly old from new and not the other way around??? .

minutes.py 
def minutes(datetimes):
    for item in datetimes:
      item.timedelta.total_seconds() - item.timedelta.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

I think you misunderstood the instructions — this function will always take two arguments and use them to make one calculation. So you won't need a loop.

Also the instructions explicitly say "The first will always be older and the second newer. You'll need to subtract the first from the second.", so you won't have to handle it "the other way around".