I'd like to be able to do the following:
num_intervals = (cur_date - previous_date) / interval_length
or
print (datetime.now() - (datetime.now() - timedelta(days=5)))
/ timedelta(hours=12)
# won't run, would like it to print '10'
but the division operation is unsupported on timedeltas. Is there a way that I can implement divison for timedeltas?
Edit: Looks like this was added to Python 3.2 (thanks rincewind!): http://bugs.python.org/issue2706
解决方案
Sure, just convert to a number of seconds (minutes, milliseconds, hours, take your pick of units) and do the division.
EDIT (again): so you can't assign to timedelta.__div__. Try this, then:
divtdi = datetime.timedelta.__div__
def divtd(td1, td2):
if isinstance(td2, (int, long)):
return divtdi(td1, td2)
us1 = td1.microseconds + 1000000 * (td1.seconds + 86400 * td1.days)
us2 = td2.microseconds + 1000000 * (td2.seconds + 86400 * td2.days)
return us1 / us2 # this does integer division, use float(us1) / us2 for fp division
And to incorporate this into nadia's suggestion:
class MyTimeDelta:
__div__ = divtd
Example usage:
>>> divtd(datetime.timedelta(hours = 12), datetime.timedelta(hours = 2))
6
>>> divtd(datetime.timedelta(hours = 12), 2)
datetime.timedelta(0, 21600)
>>> MyTimeDelta(hours = 12) / MyTimeDelta(hours = 2)
6
etc. Of course you could even name (or alias) your custom class timedelta so it gets used in place of the real timedelta, at least in your code.