how to get the Seconds of the time using python

Question

this is my code:

last_time = get_last_time()
now = time.time() - last_time
minute = 
seconds = 
print 'Next time you add blood is '+minute+':'+seconds

Because recovery blood every 5 minutes so only need minute and second

thanks

Answer 1

This is basic time arithmetics...if you know that a minute has 60 seconds then you could have found that yourself:

minute = int(now / 60)
seconds = int(now % 60)

Answer 2

I believe the difference between two time objects returns a timedelta object. This object has a .total_seconds() method. You'll need to factor these into minutes+seconds yourself:

minutes = total_secs % 60
seconds = total_secs - (minutes * 60)

When you don't know what to do with a value in Python, you can always try it in an interactive Python session. Use dir(obj) to see all of any object's attributes and methods, help(obj) to see its documentation.

Update: I just checked and time.time() doesn't return a time object, but a floating point representing seconds since Epoch. What I said still applies, but you get the value of total_secs in a different way:

total_secs = round(time.time() - last_time)

So in short:

last_time = get_last_time()
time_diff = round(time.time() - last_time)
minute = time_diff / 60
seconds = time_diff % 60  # Same as time_diff - (minutes * 60)
print 'Next time you add blood is '+minute+':'+seconds