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

offset_seconds = timedelta.total_seconds()

if offset_seconds < 0:
    sign = "-"
else:
    sign = "+"

# we will prepend the sign while formatting
if offset_seconds < 0:
    offset_seconds *= -1

offset_hours = offset_seconds / 3600.0
offset_minutes = (offset_hours % 1) * 60

offset = "{:02d}:{:02d}".format(int(offset_hours), int(offset_minutes))
offset = sign + offset