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wael ayad
3,220 PointsWrite a function named minutes that takes two datetimes and returns the number of minutes, rounde
i need to know what is wrong on it
import datetime
def minutes(time1, time2):
return datetime.minutes - datetime.minutes
2 Answers
Martin Cornejo Saavedra
18,132 PointsYou have to use the time1 and time2 you defined as inputs in your function. Then you have to substract them, this will return a timedelta. This timedelta has seconds but not minutes, so you'll have to divide by 60 and round it.
import datetime
def minutes(time1, time2):
time_delta = time2 - time1
seconds = time_delta.seconds
minutes = round(seconds/60)
return minutes
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 PointsHi Wael,
The first issue I noticed you aren't using the passed in parameters time1 and time2. Let's step through migrating your code to a working solution
# Your original code:
def minutes(time1, time2):
return datetime.minutes - datetime.minutes
# Change return statement to use the function arguments
return time2 - time1 #returns time_delta object
# Change to return seconds
return (time2 - time1).seconds
# Convert to minutes
return (time2 - time1),seconds/60
# Round result to nearest minute to give final results
def minutes(time1, time2):
return round((time2 - time1).seconds/60)