timedelta functions

gistfile1.py

def human_time(td):
    """
    Return a more human readable version of a timedelta instance
    """
    ret_str = ""
    translate_tuple = [
            "day",
            "hour",
            "minute",
            "second"]
    time_tuple = get_days_hours_minutes(td)
    for val in time_tuple:
        epoch = translate_tuple.pop(0)
        if val:
            ret_str += "{0} {epoch}".format(val, epoch=epoch)
            ret_str += "s " if val is not 1 else " "
    return ret_str


def get_days_hours_minutes(td):
    """
    Timedelta objects only have seconds and days.  This takes a timedelta
    instance and returns a tuple of days, hours, minutes, seconds

    >>> from datetime import timedelta
    >>> td = timedelta(seconds=0)
    >>> get_days_hours_minutes(td)
    (0, 0, 0, 0)
    >>> td = timedelta(days=1, hours=1, minutes=1, seconds=1)
    >>> get_days_hours_minutes(td)
    (1, 1, 1, 1)
    >>> td = timedelta(days=0, hours=25, minutes=0, seconds=0)
    >>> get_days_hours_minutes(td)
    (1, 1, 0, 0)
    """
    minutes, seconds = divmod(td.days * 86400 + td.seconds, 60)
    hours, minutes = divmod(minutes, 60)
    days, hours = divmod(hours, 24)
    return days, hours, minutes, seconds

def total_seconds(td):
    """
    This gives equivalent functionality as timedelta.total_seconds in
    Python >= 2.7

    http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html

    >>> from datetime import timedelta
    >>> td = timedelta(days=1)
    >>> int(total_seconds(td))
    86400
    """
    return (td.microseconds +
            (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10 ** 6) / 10 ** 6