On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:16:52 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Claes at work wrote: > >> Please tell me there is a simpler way than subtracting two datetimes >> to get a timedelta and then compute >> >> days * number of seconds per day + seconds >> >> from it myself?? > > why would you have to do that yourself? why not let Python do it for > you? here's the code: > > seconds = td.days * 86400 + td.seconds
I'm sure somebody as experienced as Fredrik doesn't need to be told why peppering code with magic constants like 84600 are a less than ideal solution -- and for those who do need to be told, carefully compare what I wrote to what Fredrik wrote to see one of those reasons. Arguably a better solution would be to do this: seconds = td.days * 24*60*60 + td.seconds Still not ideal though, although that depends on just how often you need to convert days to or from seconds. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
