Python: convert datedelta to int value of time difference

Question

I want to change time delta to integer value .

My code is as below.

import datetime
now = datetime.date.today()
print(now.toordinal()) # 736570
cali_date = datetime.data(2017, 6, 14)
print(cali_date.toordinal()) # 736494
date1 = now - cali_date
print(date1) # 76 days, 0:00:00

But, I want to get just 76 with integer. How can I solve this problem? Thank you.

Answer 1

Just reference the days attribute of the timedelta object you have there:

print(date1.days)

There are also timedelta.seconds and timedelta.microseconds attributes, modeling the complete delta state.

Answer 2

date1 is a timedelta object - use date1.days to get the number of days as an integer, or date1.total_seconds() to see the number of seconds between the two datetime objects.