Python Time conversion h:m:s to seconds

Question

I am aware that with the timedelta function you can convert seconds to h:m:s using something like:

>> import datetime
>> str(datetime.timedelta(s         


        

Answer 1

This works in 2.6.4:

hours, minutes, seconds = [int(_) for _ in thestring.split(':')]

If you want to turn it back into a timedelta:

thetimedelta = datetime.timedelta(hours=hours, minutes=minutes, seconds=seconds)