datetime: print as seconds

Question

I have a datetime object. I want to print it as just number of seconds (i.e., 1 min 30.5 sec should print as 90.5 s). Can't seem to find a way to do it with strftime.

Answer 1

I think that for your situation you'd be better off using a datetime.timedelta object. It has a function that will do exactly what you want, datetime.timedelta.total_seconds().