Python Time conversion h:m:s to seconds

Question

I am aware that with the timedelta function you can convert seconds to h:m:s using something like:

>> import datetime
>> str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=666)) 
'0:11:06'

But I need to convert h:m:s to seconds, or minutes.

Do you know a function that can do this?

Answer 1

def hms_to_seconds(t):
    h, m, s = [int(i) for i in t.split(':')]
    return 3600*h + 60*m + s