Ant wrote: > John Machin wrote: > ... > > 1. If that's what he wanted, it was a very peculiar way of asking. Do > > you suspect that he needs to be shown how to conver 877.7... minutes > > into hours, minutes and seconds??? > > Chill dude, It wasn't an attack :-)
I didn't think it was. > > The datetime class has hour, minute and second attributes that give the > values of each as being in range(24) (hours) and range(60). i.e. > integers. So an educated guess leads me to the conclusion that it is > similar functionality that he wants from the timedelta class. > > > 2. Please consider that the order of the result would be more > > conventionally presented as (hours, minutes, seconds) -- or do you > > Very good point. That would have been a tricky issue for the OP, and > for that I apologise. > > > suspect that the OP needs it presented bassackwards? > > I think that you have that last word muddled. Not quite ass-backward, > but close ;-) On the contrary. It means "ass-backward, and then some". Google "dictionary bassackwards" and read the first few hits. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
