Convert String to datetime.timedelta-CodePudding

I have an input string as hundreds or thousand of hours, such as:

1000:50 (One thousand hours and 50 minutes)

I need to convert it into a timedelta object, in order to insert it as a DurationField in a Django Model. So far, what I tried is to use datetime.strptime but, the error is giving me is:

time data '1000:50' does not match format '%H:%M'

I tried to google any kind of solution but so far I didn't find a solution that could help me. Even though the DurationField will convert the timedelta in number of days, I just need to have the input to be as thousand or hundreds of hours, after that, the calculation will be handled in the backend.

CodePudding user response：

You get an error because %H only for 24 hours format, i.e. 0...23

To solve your particular problem, I'd extract hours and minutes from string via regular expressions

import re
from datetime import timedelta


your_string = "1000:50 (One thousand hours and 50 minutes)"
hours, minutes = re.findall('(\d ):(\d )', your_string)[0]
duration = timedelta(hours=int(hours), minutes=int(minutes))