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Chris
Chris

Reputation: 11

Need help converting total number of minutes into hour and minute format

I need help converting this into an hour and minute format using the remainder operator. I'm relatively new to python and coding in general, so help is greatly appreciated.

#Define the value of our variables 
numberOfEpisodes = 13
minutesPerEpisode = 42

#Calculate the results
totalMinutes = numberOfEpisodes * minutesPerEpisode
equivalency=totalMinutes//minutesPerHour

#Display the output 
print(numberOfEpisodes, 'episodes will take', totalMinutes, 'minutes to watch.') print('This is equivalent to', equivalency)

This is what I currently have, I am able to obtain the amount of hours there are, but I can't figure out how to adjust the code to include the remaining minutes.

Sorry if I don't make a whole lot of sense, but hopefully you'll understand.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3467

Answers (3)

Cory Kramer
Cory Kramer

Reputation: 117971

You can use // integer division and % modulus for remainder. (You can read more about Python's int and float division here)

>>> numberOfEpisodes = 13
>>> minutesPerEpisode = 42
>>> totalMinutes = numberOfEpisodes * minutesPerEpisode
>>> totalMinutes
546

>>> minutesPerHour = 60
>>> totalHours = totalMinutes // minutesPerHour
>>> totalHours
9

>>> remainingMinutes = totalMinutes % minutesPerHour
>>> remainingMinutes
6

Result

>>> print('{} episodes will take {}h {}m to watch.'.format(numberOfEpisodes,totalHours, remainingMinutes))
13 episodes will take 9h 6m to watch.

Upvotes: 3

jcabrera
jcabrera

Reputation: 146

Check out the timedelta documentation in the datetime module documents. You can create the durations as time deltas in minutes, and then when you want to display it you can ask timedelta to give it in whatever format you want. You could use arithmetic calculations to get the hours and minutes, but if you then need to use this data to calculate dates and times, for example to know at what time the show will be over if it starts at 09:00, you will have many extra steps to go through, instead of just using the timedelta.

Upvotes: 1

igon
igon

Reputation: 3046

Use the modulo operator %

#Define the value of our variables                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
numberOfEpisodes = 13
minutesPerEpisode = 42

#Calculate the results                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
totalMinutes = numberOfEpisodes * minutesPerEpisode
equivalency=totalMinutes//60
minutes= totalMinutes%60

#Display the output                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
print(numberOfEpisodes, 'episodes will take', totalMinutes, 'minutes to watch.')
print('This is equivalent to', equivalency,minutes)

Upvotes: 1

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