Use of timedelta is incorrect

[svisser]

Passing a timedelta now only works when the timedelta is constructed using seconds. You're using the .seconds of a timedelta but that's only the "seconds" component of it. For example:

>>> d = timedelta(days=1)
>>> d.seconds
0

You should convert the timedelta to seconds using total_seconds():

>>> d.total_seconds()
86400.0

You may need to convert this to an integer to use it. Using this method means your project will require Python 2.7+ as that's when total_seconds() was introduced.

[menezes-]

timedelta.total_seconds was also added on python 3.2+ so i will update the code to use the following function:

def total_seconds(td):
    """
    simulates the total_seconds function added in python 3.2+ and 2.7+
    See 
    :param td: timedelta
    :type td: timedelta
    :return: float representing total seconds from timedelta
    :rtype: float
    """
    return (td.microseconds + (td.seconds + td.days * 24 * 3600) * 10 ** 6) / 10 ** 6