Compare if datetime.timedelta is between two values

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I have a datetime.timedelta time object in python (e.g. 00:02:00) I want to check if this time is less than 5 minutess and greater then 1 minute.

I'm not sure how to construct a timedelta object and I'm also not sure if this is the right format to compare times. Would anyone know the most efficient way to do this?

What do you mean you don't know how to construct a timedelta object? Have you looked at the docs? Have you even tried? — Falmarri, Feb 02 '15 at 22:33

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 02 '15 at 22:59

So if you start with a string that's rigorously and precisely in the format 'HH:MM:SS', timedelta doesn't directly offer a string-parsing function, but it's not hard to make one:

import datetime

def parsedelta(hhmmss):
    h, m, s = hhmmss.split(':')
    return datetime.timedelta(hours=int(h), minutes=int(m), seconds=int(s))

If you need to parse many different variants you'll be better off looking for third-party packages like dateutil.

Once you do have timedelta instance, the check you request is easy, e.g:

onemin = datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)
fivemin = datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)

if onemin < parsedelta('00:02:00') < fivemin:
    print('yep')

will, as expected, display yep.

Compare if datetime.timedelta is between two values

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