Thanks folks, I think I have this as a working solution: import datetime, time a= datetime.datetime.now() time.sleep(7.1564651443644) b= datetime.datetime.now() #for testing longer time periods #a= datetime.datetime(2003, 8, 4, 8, 31, 4,0) #b= datetime.datetime(2004, 8, 5, 19, 32, 6,0) c = b-a print "%s days, %.2dh: %.2dm: %.2ds" % (c.days,c.seconds//3600,(c.seconds//60)%60, c.seconds%60)
The attributes for timedelta seem only to be days, seconds and microseconds only. Nonetheless these can be used to deduce HH:MM:SS. Thanks, Jignesh On 11 December 2013 16:21, Ricardo Aráoz <ricar...@gmail.com> wrote: > El 11/12/13 10:37, Mark Lawrence escribió: > > On 11/12/2013 13:12, Jignesh Sutar wrote: >> >>> print str(exe_time).split('.')[0] >>> Sorry, I guess my question was why I can't use something similar to >>> below on exe_time (of type datetime.timedelta)? Rather than doing string >>> manipulation on decimals or colons to extract the same. >>> >>> now = datetime.now() >>> print now.hour >>> print now.minute >>> print now.year >>> >>> >> Old style >> >> print('%02d:%02d:%04d' % (now.hour, now.minute, now.year)) >> >> New style >> >> print('{}:{}:{}'.format(now.hour, now.minute, now.year)) >> >> Sorry I can never remember the formatting types to go between {} so look >> for them around here http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html# >> formatstrings >> >> > > Or just use strftime() : > > >>> import datetime > >>> n = datetime.datetime.now() > >>> n.strftime('%H:%M:%S') > '13:19:04' > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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