Python how to convert TimeSpan string to DateTime Day

Question

42.00:00:00

This is a TimeSpan value from PowerShell.

How should I go about converting the above string into Python DateTime? I actually only need the day value in a string. The following code does not work with this:

strptime("42.00:00:00", "%d.%H:%M:%S")

I'm assuming it's because of the day being out of day of the month range.

Answer 1

If you only need the day value, you can just split the string on the period, and take the first element.

timespan = "42.00:00:00"
num_days = int(timespan.split(".", 1)[0])

The issue in the conversion you're trying to do is that the PowerShell Timespan is a period of time, and isn't equivalent to a DateTime object though which represents a specific date and time. Instead, you want to convert it to a timedelta object , which also represents a span of time.

So from this code, you can create that object with the following:

from datetime import timedelta
timedelta(days=num_days)