alternative to total_seconds() in python 2.6

Question

In python 2.7 there is the total_seconds() method.

In python 2.6, it doesn\'t exist and it suggests to use

(td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days          


        

Answer 1

Here it is in a timedelta_total_seconds function and using 2.7 you can see that it gets the same output as using the total_seconds method.

import datetime


def timedelta_total_seconds(timedelta):
    return (
        timedelta.microseconds + 0.0 +
        (timedelta.seconds + timedelta.days * 24 * 3600) * 10 ** 6) / 10 ** 6


timestamp = '2014-10-24 00:00:00'
time_delta = datetime.datetime.strptime(
    timestamp, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - datetime.datetime(1970, 1, 1)

print timedelta_total_seconds(time_delta)
print time_delta.total_seconds()

Outputs

1414108800.0
1414108800.0