Compare only time part in datetime - Python

Question

I want to compare only time part in datetime. I have different dates with only time field to compare. Since dates are different and only time part i want to consider So i think creating two datetime object will not help. my string as

start="22:00:00"
End="03:00:00"
Tocompare="23:30:00"

Above are strings when i convert them with datetime as

dt=datetime.strptime(start,"%H:%M:%S")

it gives

1900-01-01 22:00:00

which is default date in python. So i need to avoid all this and want only time part. I simply need to check does my Tocompare falls between start and End

Answer 1

Just call the .time() method of the datetime objects to get their hours, minutes, seconds and microseconds.

dt = datetime.strptime(start,"%H:%M:%S").time() 

Answer 2

Compare their times using datetime.time().

Answer 3

import datetime

start = datetime.datetime.strptime(start, '%H:%M:%S')
start = datetime.time(start.hour, start.minute,start.second)

tocompare = datetime.datetime.strptime(tocompare, '%H:%M:%S')
tocompare = datetime.time(tocompare.hour, tocompare.minute, tocompare.second)

start > tocompare # False