time difference interms of day

[Steve Holden]

On 10/24/2010 1:55 PM, mukkera harsha wrote:
> Hello 
>   I was wondering if there is an existing function that would let me 
> determine the difference in time. To explain: 
> 
> Upon starting a program: 
> 
> startup = time.time() 
> 
> After some very long processing: 
> now = time.time() 
> 
> 
> On, doing now - startup I want the program to return in terms of days. How ?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Harsha.
> 
You'd probably be better off using the datetime module. That way you can
store datetime.datetime.now() at the start of your run and subtract
datetime.datetime.now() at the end, giving you a datetime.delta object
which contains days, seconds and microseconds:

>>> import datetime
>>> t1 = datetime.datetime.now()
[waited a while]
>>> t2 = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> t2-t1
datetime.timedelta(0, 16, 509000)
>>>

regards
 Steve
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