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

Like bobince said, you could use timestamps, like this:

# assuming ts1 and ts2 are the two datetime objects
from time import mktime
mktime(ts1.timetuple()) - mktime(ts2.timetuple())

Although I would think this is even uglier than just calculating the seconds from the timedelta object...