2009/3/3 Judith Flores <jur...@yahoo.com>: > > Hello, > > I can't seem to figure out the syntax to calculate the difference in > minutes between two time stamps. I already read the documentation about > datetime and time modules, but I was unable to implement the code. > > My code will be fed with two timestamps (as styrings): > > start="09:35:23" > end="10:23:00" > > Could someone guide me on how to calculate the difference in minutes > between both stamps?
You want to use the datetime.datetime.strptime() function to parse the timestamps. Although you will probably need to look at the time module to get the different codes -- the documentation isn't superbly organised in this area, I feel. Anyway, as a start: >>> import datetime >>> s = '09:35:23' >>> datetime.datetime.strptime(s, '%H:%M:%S') datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 9, 35, 23) Can you figure out how to proceed from there? -- John. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
