Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Zachary Ware Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Format a timedelta object Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 00:28:40 -0500 Lines: 20 Sender: zachary.ware@gmail.com Message-ID: References: <574686cc$0$1584$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Reply-To: python-list@python.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de ETN+NsW4CXR1eO2cK/8c8wmQymPAF68n4T0SLqFXuRbA== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.023 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.95; '*S*': 0.00; 'reminded': 0.09; 'properly': 0.15; 'thu,': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; 'forty': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:object': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'sender:addr:gmail.com': 0.18; '>>>': 0.20; 'to:name:python-list@python.org': 0.20; 'hours,': 0.22; 'trying': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'plain': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'figure': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'object,': 0.27; 'str': 0.29; "d'aprano": 0.33; 'steven': 0.33; 'this?': 0.34; 'skip:d 20': 0.34; 'gives': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'too': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'received:209.85': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'being': 0.37; 'display': 0.37; 'received:209.85.213': 0.37; 'received:209': 0.38; 'format': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'header:Reply- To:1': 0.67; 'reply-to:no real name:2**0': 0.71; '26,': 0.72; 'reply-to:addr:python.org': 0.84 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=IXv+RmK0n1j2E80NBxnR+JTjiaYAXVPVRSGSNBDcPtY=; b=LM7NCwQkN9fIAlKpZ6FY4rywy9ljuUuug/ckXSG4/gf+Ef8DA0ruHD9jd/kg3RTFwE aTG2KbaOxVE9KQlVzybdZd8JhnD+DIPN18NNgow+vqAbc3wFqQoCV77sJuMKoK5JVrL5 WAn0cLvG+B4xrySA5ADOt6TZKw6yhL1DmTEyr754EA5D+H5slMKuWEe5WdV6AUXoXkuy M9XUgxy/PG4NeJLAtIiSI6KurMeifG20R8hAxZKT4o4XvQCh6fIWKl8IbCPnigH/9r+5 wx9SLlO9pJXdGISVeIkPdjdHTgkc9rE50rSq3LPgCh4NUHcvADqiqmmWX8ISPU5ZDt80 TLzw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=IXv+RmK0n1j2E80NBxnR+JTjiaYAXVPVRSGSNBDcPtY=; b=IF9f2mjwUAza1X4ihXmPl1zlxHdfg7kxriTWx+Xdvr3R0l+KLgivDyCI4hq0p++QV6 qsIwPvkS1ImBPF3f0kgtSa9ff7Kgrlb/0wFnJ9/6UBTKJ6Y5DS+jk5lAcol5q8OejqPN 2lNBz3SSsKxrnusbPpOQOVxwWDlHPhGEuCNtosOyIYBFHMqLdCps7OS1tJWhHuRrP5aH lXiDFmpbSRdwj5G5EREq2pzVI5uWoprZh0W5/WP/8NvUQ85utlHdaIymT/Ci1F57zGsO VlcuNqQ2GuJRjMAgtS3nxDfT0YCdEtTX6tZIjWTCyu3ERMqmYqmOCuKe4+Tc0iJVJSJ4 XXMQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tL5gOks4pe4IYrX00SLOpwzGpQmBp7qogV66B778xelBjUKtJxxJKkGvbf1XAxiLsHOEcMyui+p3E7j5w== X-Received: by 10.31.33.143 with SMTP id h137mr4801477vkh.59.1464240539398; Wed, 25 May 2016 22:28:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <574686cc$0$1584$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: pP4FwdCqnNiC52XFz6ef5Emc-64 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: X-Mailman-Original-References: <574686cc$0$1584$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:109131 On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:16 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I have a timedelta object, and I want to display it in a nice human-readable > format like 03:45:17 for "three hours, forty five minutes, 17 seconds". > > Is there a standard way to do this? >>> timedelta(100) datetime.timedelta(100) >>> str(timedelta(seconds=100)) '0:01:40' >>> str(timedelta(hours=100)) '4 days, 4:00:00' (I recently spent *way* too long trying to figure out how to properly format the thing before being reminded that a plain str call gives exactly what I was after.) -- Zach