calculating the datetime objects to get the minutes

[chris0147]

Hi all,

I am working on the datetime objects to calculate on between the start and stop time. I want to get the return output to something like this:

For 55 minutes

55

So when I try this:

self.program_start_time = [datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 15), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 15), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 22, 45), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 20), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 5), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 0), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 0)]
self.program_stop_time = [datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 0, 10), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 0, 15), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 0, 5), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 0, 20), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 0, 10), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 1, 0), datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 1, 0)]

program_start_time = self.program_start_time[0])
program_stop_time = self.program_stop_time[0])
program_minutes = program_stop_time - program_start_time
program_minutes = program_minutes

I will get the return output like this:

0:55:00

I have got no idea how I can get the minutes because the type of the program_minutes is datetime.timedelta. The type for the variable program_start_time is datetime.datetime and program_stop_time is datetime.datetime.

I want to know how do you use to calculate on the two datetime objects to get the return output for the minutes instead of the hours and seconds?

Thanks in advance.

[snippsat]

Like this,and next time make some effort to post code that can be executed.
Make it easier to help.

import datetime

program_start_time = datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 3, 23, 15)
program_stop_time = datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 4, 0, 10)
program_minutes = program_stop_time - program_start_time
diff_in_minutes = program_minutes / datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)
print(diff_in_minutes)
print(f'The difference in minutes is {diff_in_minutes:.0f}')

Output:
55.0
The difference in minutes is 55

The best out there Pendulum(as it's build on datetime in bottom).

>>> import pendulum

>>> start = pendulum.create(2018, 4, 3, 23, 15)
>>> stop = pendulum.create(2018, 4, 4, 0, 10)
>>> start.diff(stop).in_minutes()
55
>>> start.diff(stop).in_seconds()
3300