python convert timedelta to meaningful string such as “1 hours”

I want to convert a python timedelta object to an easy to read meaningful string

for example:

0 1:0:0 -> 1 hours
0 0:5:0. -> 5 minutes
2 0:0:0. ->. 2 days

any ideas how to do that?

Thanks

Answer

Actually timedelta class, provides you days, seconds, microseconds property directly. But in order to get “hours” and “minutes” you can do some simple calculations yourself.

import datetime

d1 = datetime.datetime(2012, 4, 20, second=10, microsecond=14)
d2 = datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 20, second=8, microsecond=4)
delta = d1 - d2

print(delta)
print(delta.days)
print(delta.seconds)
print(delta.microseconds)

Divide seconds by 60 to get minutes, by 3600 to get hours