How to Convert Datetime.Timedelta to Minutes, Hours in Python

How do I convert datetime.timedelta to minutes, hours in Python?

There's no built-in formatter for timedelta objects, but it's pretty easy to do it yourself:

days, seconds = duration.days, duration.seconds
hours = days * 24 + seconds // 3600
minutes = (seconds % 3600) // 60
seconds = seconds % 60

Or, equivalently, if you're in Python 2.7+ or 3.2+:

seconds = duration.total_seconds()
hours = seconds // 3600
minutes = (seconds % 3600) // 60
seconds = seconds % 60

Now you can print it however you want:

'{} minutes, {} hours'.format(minutes, hours)

For example:

def convert_timedelta(duration):
    days, seconds = duration.days, duration.seconds
    hours = days * 24 + seconds // 3600
    minutes = (seconds % 3600) // 60
    seconds = (seconds % 60)
    return hours, minutes, seconds
td = datetime.timedelta(2, 7743, 12345)
hours, minutes, seconds = convert_timedelta(td)
print '{} minutes, {} hours'.format(minutes, hours)

This will print:

9 minutes, 50 hours

If you want to get "10 minutes, 1 hour" instead of "10 minutes, 1 hours", you need to do that manually too:

print '{} minute{}, {} hour{}'.format(minutes, 's' if minutes != 1 else '',
                                      hours, 's' if minutes != 1 else '')

Or you may want to write an english_plural function to do the 's' bits for you, instead of repeating yourself.

From your comments, it sounds like you actually want to keep the days separate. That's even easier:

def convert_timedelta(duration):
    days, seconds = duration.days, duration.seconds
    hours = seconds // 3600
    minutes = (seconds % 3600) // 60
    seconds = (seconds % 60)
    return days, hours, minutes, seconds

If you want to convert this to a single value to store in a database, then convert that single value back to format it, do this:

def dhms_to_seconds(days, hours, minutes, seconds):
    return (((days * 24) + hours) * 60 + minutes) * 60 + seconds

def seconds_to_dhms(seconds):
    days = seconds // (3600 * 24)
    hours = (seconds // 3600) % 24
    minutes = (seconds // 60) % 60
    seconds = seconds % 60
    return days, hours, minutes, seconds

So, putting it together:

def store_timedelta_in_database(thingy, duration):
    seconds = dhms_to_seconds(*convert_timedelta(duration))
    db.execute('INSERT INTO foo (thingy, duration) VALUES (?, ?)',
               thingy, seconds)
    db.commit()

def print_timedelta_from_database(thingy):
    cur = db.execute('SELECT duration FROM foo WHERE thingy = ?', thingy)
    seconds = int(cur.fetchone()[0])
    days, hours, minutes, seconds = seconds_to_dhms(seconds)
    print '{} took {} minutes, {} hours, {} days'.format(thingy, minutes, hours, days)

Convert a timedelta to days, hours and minutes

If you have a datetime.timedelta value td, td.days already gives you the "days" you want. timedelta values keep fraction-of-day as seconds (not directly hours or minutes) so you'll indeed have to perform "nauseatingly simple mathematics", e.g.:

def days_hours_minutes(td):
    return td.days, td.seconds//3600, (td.seconds//60)%60

Convert datetime.timedelta to minutes

Take the total_seconds and divide by 60.

>>> import datetime
>>> td = datetime.timedelta(seconds=90)
>>> td.total_seconds() / 60
1.5

How to get total hours and minutes for timedelta in Python

You can use total_seconds() to compute the number of seconds. This can then be turned into minutes or hours:

>>> datetime.timedelta(days=3).total_seconds()
259200.0

Is there a way to format a timedelta object to be hours-minutes-seconds.MILLISECONDS?

Given your initial code example, you could use something like this:

# From your example.
c = b - a

# Get the hours, minutes, and seconds.
minutes, seconds = divmod(c.seconds, 60)
hours, minutes = divmod(minutes, 60)

# Round the microseconds to millis.
millis = round(c.microseconds/1000, 0)

print(f"Doing <something> took {hours}:{minutes:02}:{seconds:02}.{millis}")

which results in

# c = datetime.timedelta(seconds=7, microseconds=319673)
Doing <something> took 0:00:07.320

Take a look at Python’s built-in functions round() and divmod() and please poke around this and this related thread; also, please read through this and this thread to learn more about formatting timedelta objects.

How do I convert seconds to hours, minutes and seconds?

You can use datetime.timedelta function:

>>> import datetime
>>> str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=666))
'0:11:06'

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