Converting minutes to HH:MM format in Python [dupl

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First of all, I'd like to point out that I'm a beginner with Python.

My problem is that I can't figure out what is the proper way to convert minutes to HH:MM format in Python.

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

Use the divmod() function:

'{:02d}:{:02d}'.format(*divmod(minutes, 60))

Here divmod() divides the minutes by 60, returning the number of hours and the remainder, in one.

Demo:

>>> minutes = 135
>>> '{:02d}:{:02d}'.format(*divmod(minutes, 60))
'02:15'