Because timedelta objects can be passed seconds, milliseconds, days, etc... so you need to specify what are you passing in (this is why you use the explicit key).

I need to check if n years have been since some date. I'm using timedelta from the datetime module and I don't know how to convert it to years.

Jan 28, 2019 · I looked at the datetime and datetime.timedelta docs class datetime.timedelta (days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0, milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, weeks=0)¶. These works if I want …

Jan 7, 2013 · A datetime.timedelta corresponds to the difference between two dates, not a date itself. It's only expressed in terms of days, seconds, and microseconds, since larger time units like months and …

Jun 30, 2013 · I'm having trouble formatting a datetime.timedelta object. Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a list of objects and one of the members of the class of the object is a timedelta object that sh...

I have a date "10/10/11(m-d-y)" and I want to add 5 days to it using a Python script. Please consider a general solution that works on the month ends also. I am using following code:

Aug 4, 2010 · What I am trying to do is to subtract 7 hours from a date. I searched stack overflow and found the answer on how to do it here. I then went to go read the documentation on timedelta …

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11 The python timedelta library should do what you need. A timedelta is returned when you subtract two datetime instances.

If you have a datetime.timedelta value td, td.days already gives you the "days" you want. timedelta values keep fraction-of-day as seconds (not directly hours or minutes) so you'll indeed have to …