How to convert to Time Duration

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The time duration is being described using four sets of double digits numbers separated with columns such as 00:02:01:16. I know that this represents a time interval or a time duration. I would like to translate it to a single number that represents a time duration in a more common form such as "120 seconds" or "12 minutes". What approach should be taken here?

Have you tried the things listed in this post? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10663720/converting-a-time-string-to-seconds-in-python — jhack, Oct 13 '16 at 22:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 13 '16 at 22:28

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", ".join((a+b for a,b in zip(time_s.split(":")," hour(s), min(s), second(s), ms".split(","))))

answered Oct 13 '16 at 22:28

Joran Beasley

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 22:31

You need to use timedelta.

from datetime import timedelta

Assume your time 00:02:01:16 is stored in a, which comes from end_time - start_time

This will be automatically be a timedelta object. Then you can use a.total_seconds() to get the seconds information.

Check Timedelta Documentation for more usage and examples

How to convert to Time Duration

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