How to convert a string (X hours X minutes X seconds) to datetime in Python?
I have a column that stores time as such, ‘3 hours 10 minutes’. I want to sum the column to get a total amount of hours. How can I convert this string into a timestamp?
To parse string into datetime, you can use datetime.strptime():
>>> from datetime import datetime >>> >>> datetime.strptime('3 hours 10 minutes', '%H hours %M minutes') datetime.datetime(1900, 1, 1, 3, 10) This will return a datetime object, which you can process further.
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