How to calculate the time interval between two time strings

Question

I have two times, a start and a stop time, in the format of 10:33:26 (HH:MM:SS). I need the difference between the two times. I\'ve been looking through documentation for

Answer 1

Structure that represent time difference in Python is called timedelta. If you have start_time and end_time as datetime types you can calculate the difference using - operator like:

diff = end_time - start_time

you should do this before converting to particualr string format (eg. before start_time.strftime(...)). In case you have already string representation you need to convert it back to time/datetime by using strptime method.