Converting Time Output To A Float Variable (python)

from Tkinter import * from datetime import datetime from datetime import timedelta import math rate1 = str(35.34) amp = 2.40 pmp = 2.50 signOnSun1 = raw_input('What time did y

Solution 1:

timeWorkedSun1 is of type datetime.timedelta. Call its total_seconds method to translate it into a number of second (then divide by 3600 to get it in hours-and-fractions). I.e:

time_mul_by_hourly_rate = (timeWorkedSun1.total_seconds() / 3600.0) * rate1

Solution 2:

Assuming what you want to do is ask a user to enter two hours:minutes figures, and calculate the hours + fractions of hours between them, then using datetime as you do now, you'd do something like (simplified):

signOn = "09:15"signOff = "15:45"FMT = "%H:%M"timeWorkedSun =  datetime.strptime(signOff, FMT) -  datetime.strptime(signOn, FMT)

# timeWorkedSun is now a datetime.timedeltafractionHours = timeWorkedSun.total_seconds()/60.0/60

Alternately, without datetime code, we could do:

signOn = "09:15"signOff = "15:45"signOnP = [int(n) for n in signOn.split(":")]
signOffP = [int(n) for n in signOff.split(":")]

signOnH = signOnP[0] + signOnP[1]/60.0signOffH = signOffP[0] + signOffP[1]/60.0hours = signOffH - signOnH

However, that'll fail if someone started at 6pm on one day and ended at 3am the next day, so you might want to rethink your logic