Nagy László Zsolt wrote: > I ran into a problem today where I had to determine the mean point > between two datetimes. Here is an example: > >>>> start = datetime.datetime(2016,2,11) >>>> stop = datetime.datetime.now() >>>> mean = start + (stop-start)*0.5 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'datetime.timedelta' and > 'float' > > A workaround could be something like this: > >>>> start + datetime.timedelta(seconds=0.5*((stop-start).total_seconds())) > datetime.datetime(2016, 2, 11, 5, 45, 45, 818009)
How about mean = start + (stop - start) / 2 ? > Interesting thing is that total_seconds() already returns fractions of > seconds, so it would be almost trivial to implement timedelta > multiplication with floats. > > I have checked and it does work with Python 3. But it does not work with > Python 2 - is there a good reason for this? > > Thanks, > > Laszlo -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
