Convert Time data type python-CodePudding

I am trying to transform a time variable that uses strings and integres in one column into one more friendly. For example my time variable looks like: 30m 32s

I want a variable in format 30:32 or a variable with number of seconds. Thanks.

CodePudding user response：

To transform your time variable into a more friendly format, you can use Python's datetime module.

Here is an example of how you can do this:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

# Split the time string into minutes and seconds
time_parts = time_string.split(' ')
minutes = int(time_parts[0][:-1])
seconds = int(time_parts[1][:-1])

# Create a timedelta object representing the time
time = timedelta(minutes=minutes, seconds=seconds)

# Convert the timedelta object to a string in the desired format
formatted_time = str(time).split('.')[0]

print(formatted_time)  # Outputs '0:30:32'

If you want to get the number of seconds instead of a formatted string, you can use the total_seconds method of the timedelta object:

total_seconds = time.total_seconds()

print(total_seconds)  # Outputs 1832.0

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

CodePudding user response：

I'm not sure I fully understood the question, but the following will split your string on the space then separate out the individual minutes / seconds.

def formatTime(time: str):
     minutes, seconds = time.split(' ') # Split on the space character
     minutes_val = minutes.split('m')[0] # Separate the minutes value
     seconds_val = seconds.split('s')[0] # Separate the seconds value

     return f"{minutes_val}:{seconds_val}" # Return the formatted string

CodePudding user response：

try this:

from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now() # current date and time

year = now.strftime("%Y")
print("year:", year)

month = now.strftime("%m")
print("month:", month)

day = now.strftime("%d")
print("day:", day)

time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")
print("time:", time)

date_time = now.strftime("%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S")
print("date and time:",date_time)

output:

year: 2018
month: 12
day: 24
time: 04:59:31
date and time: 12/24/2018, 04:59:3