Converting seconds to hours

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working with dates and times in python


how can i convert seconds to hours or minutes in “appt_lengths”??
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Hi @shedhe.bouhani,

Welcome to the Community!

It’s how the objects of the datetime.timedelta class work. You can read more about it in this mission.

When we instantiate a timedelta class directly (i.e. create a datetime.timedelta object), we can assign it any of the following parameters, according to the syntax:

datetime.timedelta(days=0, seconds=0, microseconds=0,
                   milliseconds=0, minutes=0, hours=0, 
                   weeks=0)

When then we print the resulting object, it will be rendered automatically in days (if applicable), hours, minutes, and seconds. For example:

ten_seconds = dt.timedelta(seconds=10)
print(ten_seconds)

Output:
0:00:10

one_hour = dt.timedelta(seconds=3600)
print(one_hour)

Output:
1:00:00

one_more_hour = dt.timedelta(minutes=30, seconds=1800)
print(one_more_hour)

Output:
1:00:00

more_than_one_day = dt.timedelta(hours=22, minutes = 180, seconds=20000)
print(more_than_one_day)

Output:
1 day, 6:33:20

However, if we assign the parameters so that to have more than one week, it will still be rendered in days, and not weeks:

two_weeks = dt.timedelta(days=13, hours=24)
print(two_weeks)

Output:
14 days, 0:00:00

Returning to your mission screen, both min_length and min_length are the objects of datetime.timedelta type. In the dictionary appt_lengths they were assigned in seconds, now they are rendered in days (in case of max_length), hours, minutes, and seconds.

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