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

It would be perfect if I could just get the entire difference in seconds.

Then plain-old-unix-timestamp as provided by the 'time' module may be more to your taste.

I personally have yet to be convinced by a lot of what's in 'datetime'.