[Tutor] Difference in minutes between two time stamps

Tim Michelsen timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de
Tue Mar 3 22:10:52 CET 2009


>  >>>> import datetime
>>>>> s = '09:35:23'
>>>>> datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%H:%M:%S')
>> datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 9, 35, 23)
>>
>> Can you figure out how to proceed from there?
> In case she doesn't know:
> 
> import datetime as dt
> start="09:35:23"
> end="10:23:00"
> 
> start_dt = dt.datetime.strptime(start, '%H:%M:%S')
> 
> end_dt = dt.datetime.strptime(end, '%H:%M:%S')

I forgot to paste in between:
diff = (end_dt - start_dt)

> diff.seconds/60



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