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

I like how this guy does it — https://amalgjose.com/2015/02/19/python-code-for-calculating-the-difference-between-two-time-stamps. Not sure if it has some cons.

But looks neat for me :)

from datetime import datetime
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta

t_a = datetime.now()
t_b = datetime.now()

def diff(t_a, t_b):
    t_diff = relativedelta(t_b, t_a)  # later/end time comes first!
    return '{h}h {m}m {s}s'.format(h=t_diff.hours, m=t_diff.minutes, s=t_diff.seconds)

Regarding to the question you still need to use datetime.strptime() as others said earlier.