Format timedelta to string

Question

I\'m having trouble formatting a datetime.timedelta object.

Here\'s what I\'m trying to do: I have a list of objects and one of the members of the cl

Answer 1

I know that this is an old answered question, but I use datetime.utcfromtimestamp() for this. It takes the number of seconds and returns a datetime that can be formatted like any other datetime.

duration = datetime.utcfromtimestamp(end - begin)
print duration.strftime('%H:%M')

As long as you stay in the legal ranges for the time parts this should work, i.e. it doesn't return 1234:35 as hours are <= 23.