Python's timedelta: can't I just get in whatever time unit I want the value of the entire difference?

Question

I am trying to have some clever dates since a post has been made on my site (\"seconds since, hours since, weeks since, etc..\") and I\'m using datetime.timedelta difference

Answer 1

You can compute the difference in seconds.

total_seconds = delta.days * 86400 + delta.seconds

No, you're no "missing something". It doesn't provide deltas in seconds.