def format_duration()

in python/python-guestbook/src/frontend/front.py [0:0]

• 11 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def format_duration(timestamp):
    """ Format the time since the input timestamp in a human readable way """
    now = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(time.time())
    prev = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp)
    rd = dateutil.relativedelta.relativedelta(now, prev)

    for n, unit in [(rd.years, "year"), (rd.days, "day"), (rd.hours, "hour"),
                    (rd.minutes, "minute")]:
        if n == 1:
            return "{} {} ago".format(n, unit)
        elif n > 1:
            return "{} {}s ago".format(n, unit)
    return "just now"