Steven D'Aprano wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.lang.python:
> 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. What you wrote, where ? > > 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. > > Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
