Why does datetime.timedelta only have the attributes 'days' and 'seconds'?

[Loris Bennett]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> With Python 3.9.2 I get
>
>   $ import datetime
>   $ s = "1-00:01:01"
>   $ t = datetime.datetime.strptime(s, "%d-%H:%M:%S")
>   $ d = datetime.timedelta(days=t.day, hours=t.hour, minutes=t.minute, seconds=t.second)
>   $ d.days
>   1
>   $ d.seconds
>   61
>   $ d.minutes
>   AttributeError: 'datetime.timedelta' object has no attribute 'minutes'
>
> Is there a particular reason why there are no attributes 'minutes' and
> 'hours and the attribute 'seconds' encompasses is the entire fractional
> day?

That should read:

  Is there a particular reason why there are no attributes 'minutes' and
  'hours' and the attribute 'seconds' encompasses the entire fractional
  day?

> Cheers,
>
> Loris
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