I am new to Python, I have been asked to write a script to display the time difference. I get these times using shell scripts and are stored in some variables H1 and H2.
I was wondering if i could use datetime.datetime in Python to calculate the difference the below code is not possible
H1 = "2009,12,22,22,22"
H2 = "2009,12,22,20,22"
g =datetime.datetime(H1) - datetime.datetime(H2)how could i pass variables or if it is not possible ?
The datetime object takes a series of integers, not a single string:
>>> t1 = datetime.datetime(2009,12,22,22,22)
>>> t2 = datetime.datetime(2009,12,22,20,22)
>>> (t1-t2).days
0
>>> (t1-t2).seconds
7200
>>>The difference between two datetimes is a timedelta, an object containing days, seconds and microseconds.
If you really have to work with strings then you can coerce them as ff:
>>> H1 = "2009,12,22,22,22"
>>> t1 = datetime.datetime(*tuple([int(x) for x in H1.split(',')]))
>>> t1
datetime.datetime(2009, 12, 22, 22, 22)
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