How to get total hours and minutes for timedelta in Python

Question

How do I return or turn a timedelta, which is bigger than 24 hours, into an object containing the total hours and minutes (for example, 26:30) instead of \"1 day, 2:30\"?

Answer 1

You can use total_seconds() to compute the number of seconds. This can then be turned into minutes or hours:

>>> datetime.timedelta(days=3).total_seconds()
259200.0