Python: convert unix time to durations

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a = time.time()
b = time.time()
c = b - a

I know c is in seconds. Is there a mod out there (maybe datetime or time) where it can convert the seconds into any form of duration?

for example: I want to be able to say

print convert_time(c, days=True) 
print convert_time(c, hours=True)

and so forth....

I know I can just convert it manually but I was wondering if there were anything out there I can use instead of writing my own func.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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The answer has already been given Python Time Seconds to h:m:s

>>> import datetime
>>> str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=666))
'0:11:06'

I don't know how to mark the topic as duplicate. Forgive me for that.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Oct 03 '14 at 14:34

Lars de Bruijn

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As addition you may access to timedelta attributes for example: `datetime.timedelta(seconds=6660000).days` – Slava Bacherikov Oct 03 '14 at 14:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '14 at 14:38

You can use dateutil's relativedelta for this:

>>> from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
>>> relativedelta(seconds=5000).hours
1
>>> relativedelta(seconds=5000).minutes
23
>>> relativedelta(seconds=5000).seconds
20

Plenty of other good options, too, but this has the kinds of conversion stuff built into it that I wish the stock datetime.timedelta had.

Python: convert unix time to durations

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