[Tutor] formatting datetime.timedelta to "HH:MM:SS"

[Jignesh Sutar]

Thanks Mark,

print('%02d:%02d:%04d' % (now.hour, now.minute, now.year))


That works for;
now = datetime.now()

but not for;
exe_time = endTime-startTime


Thanks,
Jignesh


On 11 December 2013 13:37, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On 11/12/2013 13:12, Jignesh Sutar wrote:
>
>>     print str(exe_time).split('.')[0]
>> Sorry, I guess my question was why I can't use something similar to
>> below on exe_time (of type datetime.timedelta)? Rather than doing string
>> manipulation on decimals or colons to extract the same.
>>
>> now = datetime.now()
>> print now.hour
>> print now.minute
>> print now.year
>>
>>
> Old style
>
> print('%02d:%02d:%04d' % (now.hour, now.minute, now.year))
>
> New style
>
> print('{}:{}:{}'.format(now.hour, now.minute, now.year))
>
> Sorry I can never remember the formatting types to go between {} so look
> for them around here http://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#
> formatstrings
>
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