Get time object from milliseconds

Question

What would be the best way to get a python time object form milliseconds int? For example:

ms = 2588832
datetime.timedelta(seconds = ?)

The answer I want to get is "00:43:08"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/748491/how-do-i-create-a-datetime-in-python-from-milliseconds duplicate — FirebladeDan, Jul 28 '15 at 19:36
@FirebladeDan: That answer shows how to create a timestamp, not a timedelta. — Kevin, Jul 28 '15 at 19:38
@Kevin - If you take the freeway home vs the frontage road still gets you home right? Same thing ultimately he wanted datetime. Both suffice — FirebladeDan, Jul 28 '15 at 19:49
@FirebladeDan: No. The other answer is flat wrong because it incorrectly assumes floating point division is accurate (it isn't). — Kevin, Jul 28 '15 at 19:50
I'm not going to argue for some other person's post. It was selected as the best answer. — FirebladeDan, Jul 28 '15 at 19:51
@FirebladeDan: The correct answer is a variation of my answer plus some datetime arithmetic which OP didn't ask for. I fail to see how that is a duplicate of this. — Kevin, Jul 28 '15 at 19:53

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 28 '15 at 19:36

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You can create timedeltas directly from milliseconds:

datetime.timedelta(milliseconds=2588832)

answered Jul 28 '15 at 19:36

Kevin

Ok, great. I didn't know that that was possible. Thank you. – David542 Jul 28 '15 at 19:36

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