How to convert timecode string to seconds

Question

With the duration values given as a list of strings:

durations = ['00:00:59:35','00:00:55:18', '00:01:04:28']

I need to get the integer values representing the seconds.

Attempt to do it with:

from dateutil.parser import parse
result = parse('00:00:59:35')

Getting a traceback: ValueError: Unknown string format.

Is there a way to convert this string format to the seconds?

What are each of the numbers? hours:minutes:seconds:milliseconds ? — tdelaney, Oct 21 '16 at 23:14
Do you want to parse the duration and get only seconds or you want to convert everything to seconds? — midori, Oct 21 '16 at 23:19

kmario23 · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-21T23:22:00.917

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I'm assuming the format is as @tdelaney said. And if you want the seconds then you can use this list comprehension.

durations = ['00:00:59:35','00:00:55:18', '00:01:04:28']
secs = [int(d.split(":")[2]) for d in durations]

edited Oct 21 '16 at 23:22

answered Oct 21 '16 at 23:19

kmario23

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