使用divmod:

now = int(time.time()) # epoch seconds
then = now - 90000 # some time in the past

d = divmod(now-then,86400)  # days
h = divmod(d[1],3600)  # hours
m = divmod(h[1],60)  # minutes
s = m[1]  # seconds

print '%d days, %d hours, %d minutes, %d seconds' % (d[0],h[0],m[0],s)

Python 2.7新增了timedelta实例方法.total_seconds()。在Python文档中，这相当于(td。微秒+ (td。秒+ td。天* 24 * 3600)* 10**6)/ 10**6。

参考:http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html # datetime.timedelta.total_seconds

>>> import datetime
>>> time1 = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> time2 = datetime.datetime.now() # waited a few minutes before pressing enter
>>> elapsedTime = time2 - time1
>>> elapsedTime
datetime.timedelta(0, 125, 749430)
>>> divmod(elapsedTime.total_seconds(), 60)
(2.0, 5.749430000000004) # divmod returns quotient and remainder
# 2 minutes, 5.74943 seconds

这是我使用mktime的方法。

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from time import mktime

yesterday = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=1)
today = datetime.now()

difference_in_seconds = abs(mktime(yesterday.timetuple()) - mktime(today.timetuple()))
difference_in_minutes = difference_in_seconds / 60

只要用一个减去另一个。你会得到一个timedelta对象。

>>> import datetime
>>> d1 = datetime.datetime.now()
>>> d2 = datetime.datetime.now() # after a 5-second or so pause
>>> d2 - d1
datetime.timedelta(0, 5, 203000)
>>> dd = d2 - d1
>>> print (dd.days) # get days
>>> print (dd.seconds) # get seconds
>>> print (dd.microseconds) # get microseconds
>>> print (int(round(dd.total_seconds()/60, 0))) # get minutes

这将给出以秒为单位的差值(然后除以60得到分钟):

import time
import datetime

t_start = datetime.datetime.now()

time.sleep(10)

t_end = datetime.datetime.now()
elapsedTime = (t_end - t_start )

print(elapsedTime.total_seconds())

输出:

10.009222

在我看来，这是最简单的方法，您不需要担心精度或溢出问题。

例如，使用elapsedTime。秒你失去了很多精度(它返回一个整数)。同时,elapsedTime。正如这个答案所指出的，微秒的上限是10^6。因此，例如，对于10秒的sleep()， elapsedTime。微秒给出8325(这是错误的，应该是10,000,000左右)。

你可能会发现这个快速的片段在不那么长的时间间隔里很有用:

    from datetime import datetime as dttm
    time_ago = dttm(2017, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1348)
    delta = dttm.now() - time_ago
    days = delta.days # can be converted into years which complicates a bit…
    hours, minutes, seconds = map(int, delta.__format__('').split('.')[0].split(' ')[-1].split(':'))

在Python v.3.8.6上测试