[Tutor] Time module

[Tim Golden]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> Norman Khine wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am having difficulties in converting the following to display the 
>> difference that has passed in hours and seconds in a nice way.
>>
>> from datetime import datetime
>> now = datetime.now()
>> posted = date
>> difference = now - posted
>>
>> namespace['date'] = date
>> namespace['posted'] = difference
> 
> It would help if you would show complete code - what is date? what is 
> namespace? Anyway, guessing that posted is a datetime.datetime, then 
> difference is a datetime.timedelta.
> 
>> when I look at the 'posted' namespace I get
>>
>> 23:08:31.454767
>>
>> What is the best way to split this so that it will show
>>
>> '23h 08m 31s' ago
> 
> You will have to do some work yourself. difference has attributes days, 
> seconds and microseconds. You can split the seconds into hours, minutes 
> and seconds using % or divmod().
> 
> Kent

Not a 100% match, but to show the kind of thing... have a look at this
code fragment (which I posted a while back to c.l.py).

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/40a87d00875f2958

TJG