How to parse a time

Question

Is there a way to parse the following Time without using something hacky like s.spilt() a bunch of times?

s = 'PT1H28M26S'

I would like to get:

num_mins = 88

Answer 1

You could use a regular expression:

>>> match = re.search(r"PT(\d+)H(\d+)M(\d+)S", s)
>>> h, m, s = map(int, match.groups())
>>> num_mins = h * 60 + m
>>> num_mins
88