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John Kaup
John Kaup

Reputation: 81

Convert seconds to minutes and seconds

I've written some code in python 2.7 for a timer program. The downside is that the result is in seconds and I need it in Minutes:Seconds. I've tried to format the time to no avail. Can anyone help?"

from Tkinter import *
import time

root = Tk()
root.title("Timer")
canvas = Canvas(root)
canvas.pack()

time=1

def tick():

    canvas.delete(ALL)
    global time
    time += 10


    if time >= 120:

        canvas.create_text(180,140, font = ("Calibri",200),text=time,fill='red')
    else:

        canvas.create_text(180,140, font = ("Calibri",200),text=time,fill='green')
    if time == 1000:
        time = 0
        tick()
    else:
        canvas.after(1000, tick)

def reset():
    global time
    time = 0

def close_window():
    root.destroy()

b = Button(root,text="Reset", command=reset)
c = Button(root,text="Quit", command=close_window) 
b.pack(side = LEFT)
c.pack(side = RIGHT)
canvas.after(1, tick)
root.mainloop()

Upvotes: 8

Views: 12813

Answers (3)

Jivan
Jivan

Reputation: 23068

You can use datetime.timedelta

import datetime
number_of_seconds = 1000
str(datetime.timedelta(seconds=number_of_seconds))

# output
'0:16:40'

Or even better since you only want mm:ss, you can use time.strftime

import time
number_of_seconds = 1000
time.strftime("%M:%S", time.gmtime(number_of_seconds))

# output
'16:40'

Documentations are available for datetime module and for time module.

Upvotes: 13

Alex Martelli
Alex Martelli

Reputation: 881605

Being a somewhat-lazy programmer, I like to reuse good work that's embodied in the standard library (where it might well get optimized and is surely very well tested). So...:

import datetime
def secs_to_MS(secs):
    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(secs).strftime('%M:%S')

If you need to have hours there as well, that's easy too:

import datetime
def secs_to_HMS(secs):
    if secs < 3600:
        return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(secs).strftime('%M:%S')
    else:
        return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(secs).strftime('%H:%M:%S')

Upvotes: 5

user2555451
user2555451

Reputation:

To convert seconds into minutes and seconds, you can use the divmod function:

>>> time = 1000 # 1000 seconds
>>> divmod(1000, 60)
(16, 40)
>>>

The first number in the outputed tuple is the minutes and the second is the remaining seconds. You can then use str.format to make this tuple into the string you want:

>>> time = 1000
>>> '{}:{}'.format(*divmod(time, 60))
'16:40'
>>>

Upvotes: 6

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