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3,213 PointsWrite a function named minutes that takes two
I'm lost. This wasn't shown in the tutorial
import datetime
def minutes(day1, day2):
day1 = day1.total_seconds()
day2 = day2.total_seconds()
timedelta.total_seconds() = day1 - day2
return abs(minutes)
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsHey riccograves2, you are close.
The arguments are datetime objects, so subtracting them returns a timedelta object.
td_obj = day1 - day2
Then td_obj
has the total_seconds()
method
return abs(td_obj.total_seconds())
since the subtraction returns a TD object you can use the method directly on the result
return abs((day1 - day2).total_seconds()))
Post back if you need more help. Good luck!!!