How can I convert a dateutil.relativedelta object to a datetime.timedelta object?
e.g.,
# pip install python-dateutil
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
from datetime import timedelta
rel_delta = relativedelta(months=-2)
# How can I convert rel_delta to a timedelta object so that I can call total_seconds() ?
time_delta = ???(rel_delta)
time_delta.total_seconds() # call the timedelta.total_seconds() method
You can't, for one huge reason: They don't store the same information. datetime.timedelta only stores days, seconds, and milliseconds, whereas dateutil.relativedelta stores every single time component fed to it.
That dateutil.relativedelta does so is important for storing things such as a difference of 1 month, but since the length of a month can vary this means that there is no way at all to express the same thing in datetime.timedelta.