Convert hh:mm:ss to minutes using python pandas

Question

I have a dataframe column, data[\'time taken\'] ;

02:08:00
02:05:00
02:55:00
03:42:00
01:12:00
01:46:00
03:22:00
03:36:00

How

Answer 1

You could try to convert it to DatetimeIndex

In [58]: time = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['time taken'])

In [59]: time.hour * 60 + time.minute
Out[59]: array([128, 125, 175, 222,  72, 106, 202, 216], dtype=int32)