Format timedelta to string

python string datetime format timedelta
mawcs picture mawcs · Feb 11, 2009 · Viewed 318.9k times · Source

I'm having trouble formatting a datetime.timedelta object.

Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a list of objects and one of the members of the class of the object is a timedelta object that shows the duration of an event. I would like to display that duration in the format of hours:minutes.

I have tried a variety of methods for doing this and I'm having difficulty. My current approach is to add methods to the class for my objects that return hours and minutes. I can get the hours by dividing the timedelta.seconds by 3600 and rounding it. I'm having trouble with getting the remainder seconds and converting that to minutes.

By the way, I'm using Google AppEngine with Django Templates for presentation.

Answer

Parand picture Parand · Feb 11, 2009

You can just convert the timedelta to a string with str(). Here's an example:

import datetime
start = datetime.datetime(2009,2,10,14,00)
end   = datetime.datetime(2009,2,10,16,00)
delta = end-start
print(str(delta))
# prints 2:00:00

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