python count down to event (in days and hours)

Question

Please can someone advise on this, I've tried various methods but don't seem to be able to get it to work.

I just need a countdown from

datetime.now()

to

datetime(2011,05,05)

in days hours

Answer 1

You can use

delta = datetime.datetime(2011, 5, 5) - datetime.datetime.now()

to get a datetime.timedelta object describing the remaining time. The number of remaining days is delta.days, the remaining hours delta.seconds/3600. or delta.seconds//3600.