Fractional Hours from datetime?

[Martin P. Hellwig]

W. eWatson wrote:
> Maybe there's a more elegant way to do this. I want to express the 
> result of datetime.datetime.now() in fractional hours.
> 
> Here's one way.
> 
> dt=datetime.datetime.now()
> xtup = dt.timetuple()
> h = xtup[3]+xtup[4]/60.0+xtup[5]/3600.00+xtup[6]/10**6
> #  now is in fractions of an hour

Here is another (though personally I don't find this more elegant than 
yours, perhaps a bit more readable):

 >>> now = datetime.datetime.now()
 >>> fractional_hour = int(now.strftime('%H')) + int(now.strftime('%M')) 
/ 60.0

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