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and chance of introducing errors, by slicing the the units tuple by the percision. Removed __main__ because nosetest --with-coverage was flagging it. It was un-nessasary. Special thanks to Eric Rasmussen who inspired this commit.
35 lines
1.2 KiB
Python
35 lines
1.2 KiB
Python
from datetime import datetime
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from datetime import timedelta
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def delta2dict( delta ):
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"""Accepts a delta, returns a dictionary of units"""
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delta = abs( delta )
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return {
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'year' : delta.days / 365 ,
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'day' : delta.days % 365 ,
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'hour' : delta.seconds / 3600 ,
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'minute' : (delta.seconds / 60) % 60 ,
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'second' : delta.seconds % 60 ,
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'microsecond' : delta.microseconds
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}
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def human(dt, precision=2, past_tense='{} ago', future_tense='in {}'):
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"""Accept a datetime or timedelta, return a human readable delta string"""
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delta = dt
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if type(dt) is not type(timedelta()):
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delta = datetime.now() - dt
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the_tense = past_tense
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if delta < timedelta(0):
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the_tense = future_tense
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d = delta2dict( delta )
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hlist = []
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units = ( 'year', 'day', 'hour', 'minute', 'second', 'microsecond' )
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for unit in units[:precision]: # strip units to precision
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if d[ unit ] == 0: continue # skip 0's
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s = '' if d[ unit ] == 1 else 's' # handle plurals
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hlist.append( '%s %s%s' % ( d[unit], unit, s ) )
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human_delta = ', '.join( hlist )
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return the_tense.format(human_delta)
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