Elapsed time in human readable format in Python

It is rather easy to get the elapsed time in seconds or miliseconds, but if the we are trying to measure a very long running process we will probably want to see the elapsed time in a more human readable format using minutes and even hours. We can convert seconds into such format using the datetime.timedelta function.

examples/elapsed_time_in_human_readable_form.py

import datetime

def main():
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 1.429948091506958))
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 1))
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 5))
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 61))
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 100))
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 1000))
    print(datetime.timedelta(seconds = 10000))

main()

0:00:01.429948
0:00:01
0:00:05
0:01:01
0:01:40
0:16:40
2:46:40